[maemo-community] Application Karma

[From: Simon Pickering]

> Another subject is how do we implement karma decay? For news 
> items karma
> decays to zero after a week orso and will then disappear from the news
> page. How would this work for applications on the downloads 
> front page?

I'd be tempted to let the application karma last until the next software
release (for a given device), as this is really the time frame over
which an application is used/useful. Then with the next release,
assuming the dev releases a new version (good way to motivate people ;)
they will start getting new karma for the new release.

I suppose this is not ideal, as people will have a see-saw pattern for
their karma, so perhaps the karma for an old (as in no longer the
current) release should decay (reasonably quickly) as soon as a new
release is made, to smooth the saw-tooth pattern.

Just a thought,

Cheers,


Simon