[maemo-community] Explaining karma

[From: Jonas Hurrelmann]

Hello,

On Thursday 14 August 2008 16:53:09 Dave Neary wrote:

> I can imagine situations where the people who are the loudest, who are
> very active on IRC and in web forums, but who don't actually contribute
> positively, get voted in by a large group of people who think that what
> the council is about is sticking it to Nokia.

Sorry, but blogging, commenting, clicking on love symbols, posting questions 
to maemo-user and so on are not necessarily more positive contributions than 
helping people on IRC or forums or even working on some projects like liqbase.
Still it gives you the needed karma.
And I can't see why people with more than 100 karma could not try to get 
attention to just "stick it to Nokia".

> I want the council to be constructive, and I want it to support the
> people who are actually doing things for Maemo. That means electing
> people from those doing things for Maemo. Not necessarily the best known
> and not the loudest complainers.

Most parts of karma are about quantity and not about quality. It does not 
really tell you if the person complained or did constructive things (what ever 
that are for you).

Best wishes
Jonas