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I’ve been using Plurk for a while now, and have rather enjoyed it. This evening, I reached a major milestone on the service called “Nirvana”. One achieves this status when their karma rises above 81.00.

Karma is a highly debated subject among Plurk users right now. Some feel that it hurts the service, while others (me included) think that it helps promote interaction, discourages spamming, and ads some fun to it. I must say, compared to Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, and the number of other similar services, I’ve used Plurk far more often.

What does it take to obtain the highest level of karma? Not much really… in fact, I would have been at Nirvana a lot sooner had I not had a 2 week break a few months ago due to vacation and crappy (no) Comcast service. See my karma trend.

Right now, my stats on Plurk are:

• Total Plurks: 727
• Total replies: 2677
• Friends invited: 6
• Profile Views: 2495
• Friends: 294
• Fans: 67
• Member since: June 2008

As you can see, while I’ve been fairly active, I’ve not really been that active. This brings to question, is Nirvana to easy to obtain? Ask anyone who has it, and I’m sure they’ll say it’s to hard to maintain.

Sometime today a Plurk was updated and a “Responded Plurks” tab was added under the time line. Right now it looks like it only goes back to mid afternoon yesterday, which if I were to guess would be about the time they pushed the feature out to the server.

This is something a lot of us Plurkers have been waiting for. I’d expected to see a big increase in the number of plurks as people are now able to keep track of messages easier. Yet another thing that sets Plurk apart from the other services.