[maemo-community] Karma (was Re: Quick stats on voter lists)

[From: Simon Pickering]

> ext Henri Bergius wrote:
> > But yes, at the moment if your blog posts have been buried a lot you
> > will get punished in karma. But maybe we could lower the impact a
bit?
> > All the karma variables are configurable anyway...
> 
> As a regular reader of all the news landing at http://maemo.org/news I
> find that the current system (including buries) do work well when it
> comes to push the most remarkable and on-topic entries to the 
> highlights
> and the homepage.
> 
> However, it is cleerly unfair that regular bloggers clearly involved
in
> maemo.org get negative karma because of this! An easy fix would be to
> get 0 karma for buries while keeping the positive scores for hearts.

Is it not possible to flag blog posts with their relevance towards Maemo
(i.e. on the part of the blogger), and only pick up those which are
marked as Maemo-specific (on the news page)? Most (afaict) of the
Thumbs-downs come from off-topic blog posts, which really should be
voted down as they are simply noise, and have nothing to do with Maemo.

Cheers,


Simon