[maemo-community] Sprint task: Refine the karma system

[From: Valerio Valerio]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Dave Neary <dneary at maemo.org> wrote:

> Hi Valerio,
>
> Valerio Valerio wrote:
> > Here is a proposal based in previous discussion and proposed
> improvements:
> >
> > Karma source: proposed_formula(current_formula) - notes
>
> > * Discussion: 2 * sqrt(# posts) - (One point per post)
>
> Discussion is mailing lists, I think, right? 2*sqrt(#posts) seems a bit
> drastic - a mailing list post seems like a bigger contribution than a
> comment, no?
>


Comments are normally feedback from users about a particular app, so in my
opinion the relevance is similar.


> > *TMO 'gold posts'(new, need to be implemented): Posts with +40/+50
> > thanks receive additional karma (10 ? 20 ?)
>
> Is this consistent with more karma for doers?
>

That's a proposed idea, these kind of posts are normally tutorials or very
informative, so a bit more relevance for them, just an idea as I said.

>
> > * Apps: each new app in Maemo5 extras earn 50p
> > if (votes > 300) then (300*stars)/6 + 50
> > if(stars>=3 && votes =<300) then (votes*stars)/6 + 50
> > if(stars <3) then 50
>
> Do you have any stats on how karma might distribute after application?
>

Apart from the example above, no, but none of the apps currently in the
maemo5 extras will get the maximum karma, since none has more than 300
votes.


> This seems like an awful lot of karma, especially if you're "only"
> responsible for porting several popular packages to Maemo.


Well, that's not a prefect system, we can implement something to give more
karma to native apps than to ports, but the intention is to easily calculate
karma.


> It's also a
> very big jump from 2.xx stars to 3 stars. Shouldn't application related
> karma be continuous with stars & votes? Why separate <3 stars & >=3
> stars? Is the theory that "bad" applications don't deserve so much karma?
>

The initial proposal was "Apps with 0 / 2,99 stars don't generate any karma
since these ratings are considered low / bad."
But I think they deserve some karma at least :).

If I didn't make it clear in my previous email, this values are not
definitive are only a suggestion, feel free to propose other
weights/formulas.

Best regards,

-- 
Valério Valério

http://www.valeriovalerio.org


> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
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