[maemo-community] maemo.org Products karma

[From: Tim]

Or, "relevence"?

Tim


On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:06:55 +0400
Alexey Zakhlestin <indeyets at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Andrew Flegg<andrew at bleb.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 23:23, Alexey
> > Zakhlestin<indeyets at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Andrew Flegg<andrew at bleb.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Is this solely to be used for the authors' karma rating, or is
> >>> it also going to be used for identifying "Hot" downloads on
> >>> maemo.org? And the aim is to track the "vitality" of an
> >>> application?
> >>
> >> Idea is to react on changes of activity around applications. So,
> >> when a new application appears and is constantly becoming more
> >> popular it will be on top (because of positive dynamics), and when
> >> some app loses it's active userbase it will lose karma pretty fast.
> >
> > So is this *not* going to replace the "products" karma that an
> > application author already gets?
> >
> >    http://maemo.org/profile/list/category/products/
> >
> > If so, can we change the discussion *now* to use the word like
> > "vitality" or something (the word karma should be reserved for
> > things which affects a user's karma)?
> >
> > If not, is this going to be used in *addition* to the current
> > products karma, or instead of?
> 
> This has nothing to do with author's karma. Though, probably, we would
> be able to use it as a modifier of author's karma in the future.
> The number we are discussing is related solely to current
> application's dynamics.
> 
> So, I don't mind changing name :-)
> But "vitality" is not the best term. Maybe "currency" or "topicality"?
>