The problem introduced by VDVsx is that commenters on maemo.org are getting ridiculously high karma for posting a handful of comments, while app devs are getting next to nothing for popular apps.

I also think the mailing lists are out of line with the forums. A post on the mailing lists shouldn't be worth so much compared to a post on the forums.

Look at my maemo.org profile for example.

Comments: 70 karma
(I've made a few comments here and there. Not very many)
Products: 35 karma
(That's for Easy Debian, a 3.5+ star* app with more than 9500 downloads)
Discussion: 92 karma
(Again, I've made a handful of posts to the mailing lists. Not very many)
Forum posts: 75 karma
(That's for 5660 posts! )
Forum thanks: 550
(That seems OK to me, but I have a lot of thanks)

You see how disproportionately high "comments" and "discussion" are rated? And how low "products" and "Forum posts" are rated?

* As for the rating of apps, I don't like that any random person who has installation difficulties can rate my app with one star and hurt my app's rating... but that's another thread...