<div dir="ltr">Karma.<br><br>To me karma is something that should ebb and flow according to recent participation history.<br><br>Its no good having all 250,000 (public) lines counted forever.<br>It should be a bonus added over a window - something like 3 months or so.<br>
<br>The same could occur for itT participation.<br>As people come and go and are involved their scores track whats been happening to them, and if I stop participating in irc my karma bonus should drop off and eventually return to its natural level based on real contributions.<br>
<br>Gary (lcuk on #maemo)<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Simon Pickering <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:S.G.Pickering@bath.ac.uk">S.G.Pickering@bath.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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>> - if your blog<br>
>> post gets 50 faves, you currently get 51 karma for that. If you maintain<br>
>> a popular product, you get maybe 30 karma. I know which one took more<br>
>> work...<br>
><br>
> Agreed. At the same time, as karma now has some meaning, it's<br>
> amusing, at least to me, to also consider this issue in terms of<br>
> risk. Certain bloggers have achieved negative karma for writing on<br>
> topics unpopular with developers. Do developers risk negative karma<br>
> by releasing applications unpopular with end users?<br>
<br>
</div>Although we are against limiting karma, we should perhaps have a lower<br>
limit of 0. Another option would be to allow any negative karma to<br>
only affect the group in which it falls - i.e. if you have overall<br>
negative blogging karma that would fall to 0, but your discussion<br>
karma would remain at its usual value.<br>
<br>
Just a thought, overall negative karma is a difficult thing to escape<br>
from (though really, for the bloggers, they should categorise their<br>
posts better to avoid off-topic items turning up on the Maemo.org<br>
front page and being "thumbed-down").<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
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Simon<br>
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