Make karma more aggressive toward users who increment their own karma

plugins/karma.py

@@ -71,6 +71,11 @@ class Karma(object):
                 self.userpoints[nick] = 0
 
             self.server.doMessage(channel, user + ": " + args[0] + " has " + str(self.userpoints[nick]) + " points.")
+    def karma_change(self, lnick, n):
+        if self.userpoints.get(lnick, None) is None:
+            self.userpoints[lnick] = n
+        else:
+            self.userpoints[lnick] += n
 
     def handle_message(self, channel, user, message):
         if self.karma_re.match(message):
@@ -80,16 +85,11 @@ class Karma(object):
 
             for nick in addlist:
                 lnick = nick.lower()
-                if self.userpoints.get(lnick, None) is None:
-                    self.userpoints[lnick] = 1
+                if (user.lower() == lnick):
+                    self.karma_change(lnick, -1)
                 else:
-                    total = self.userpoints[lnick] + 1
-                    self.userpoints[lnick] = total
+                    self.karma_change(lnick, +1)
 
             for nick in sublist:
                 lnick = nick.lower()
-                if self.userpoints.get(lnick, None) is None:
-                    self.userpoints[lnick] = -1
-                else:
-                    total = self.userpoints[lnick] - 1
-                    self.userpoints[lnick] = total
+                self.karma_change(lnick, -1)