[maemo-community] Reforming Karma

[From: Simon Pickering]

>>> How would we translate that to karma?
>>
>> 0.0001 karma point per line, or something? Perhaps a log scale for
>> those who have *way* too much time.
>
> +1 on a log or power rule. sqrt is fine, not quite as brutal as log2.
>
> N	sqrt(N)	log2(N)
> 1	1	1
> 5	2	3
> 10	3	4
> 50	7	6
> 100	10	7
> 1000	31	10
> 10000	100	14

I'd go with sqrt(N), the amount of karma points are not all that  
large, and it gives a better separation between the orders of  
magnitude. If people want something that falls somewhere in the  
middle, we could always come up with a different equation.

Cheers,


Simon