Sandvand wrote:

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Hello,

The popular members statistics shows how many times a particular member's profile page has been viewed.

Normally this will be closely correlated to the member's activity on the site. If you read an interesting posting from another member, you may want to click on the user name to know more about that person.

I am really happy that Jacques is at the top - he has been very dedicated to Asia Observer and deserves that position.

Cheers,

John:)

Hi miramar,

In order for a member's profile to be viewed, one has to click the picture or the name of a particular member to be able to access to his/her profile page-

the more readers and guests view the profile page of a member by clicking the picture or name of that member, the more the profile is visited or viewed and the more the hits increase-


About the karma thing
it is how anyone could judge your opinion wether it is liked or disliked.
your karma can swing according to others , they can bring it down or bring it up
in their own decisions-

your article, or your topic can be deemed relative, that means one good article or opinion is likeable to others and that could also be disliked by others
or many does not mind about that karma-at all-

i personally view things in what i believe is virtuous, moral or good
others may swing the karma up or down as they wish, but what is important
to me is how relevant the contributions are given to readers concerning
learning, expanding horizons of informations, giving balansed opinions,
setting good sensible goals.

one can have as low as 1 karma if others don't increase it,
for me it's not a big deal as long as we give what is
beneficial to the readers, in terms of knowledge enrichment,
friendship and bridging the gap to give way for more understanding.

that is the good karma for me.

greetings everyone-

ON KARMA

I agree with Linsi.

I saw my karma go up and down. When I wrote a forum or shared an article not positive on a country government, my karma was dropted. In one week-end I have been dropped from 28 to 18.

So, I decided to no more take care of it and I put an explanation in my profile : I am a freedom fighter in Asia, even it is not good for my karma (look at it) and at that time I received some messages asking me what was the problem.

Yes, I am free and I respect all the others point of views

The HAND still rank 4th (unofficially) after "Always" with 15,570 or more hits.