[maemo-community] maemo.org Products karma

[From: Niels Breet]

On Tue, August 18, 2009 10:01, Andrew Flegg wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:52, Quim Gil<quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:
>
>> ext Andrew Flegg wrote:
>>> So is this *not* going to replace the "products" karma that an
>>> application author already gets?
>>>
>>> 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)?
>>
>> "karma" is a term already in use. There is now karma for users and
>> there will be also karma for apps. Why changing the name? If you know
>> what "chicken wings" are then it's much easier for you to know what
>> "airplane
>> wings" are, even if both wings are not exactly the same.
>
> * Because a developer already gets "karma for apps" by having it
> listed at maemo.org/downloads/ and people voting and commenting on it.
>

This particular form of karma is really internal kitchen. We use it for
freshness, hotness. The real 'problem' we have here is that we discuss
this in public :D

A regular user will never see anything regarding this app karma. The user
will just see a nice 'HOT' category which hopefully isn't static.

> * Because we don't say "user karma", we say "karma".
>
>
> * Because there's enough confusion around karma already.
>
>

We also use karma for keeping the news fresh, as long as we don't talk
about it there is no confusion :)

>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Andrew

- Niels