maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Sprint task: Refine the karma system (community input requested)

	penguinbait	2010-01-13 , 19:00
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Originally Posted by qole

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...

So you received 35 karma for 1 app, and 75 karma for 5600 posts. And you think thats the app didnt receive enough karma compared to the posts? I guarantee people would agree your 5600 comments are worth far more than easy debian. Well at least half of the 5600 anyway

Then comes the thanks, you have 550 karma for thanks which you well earned in this forum.

I personally don't see a huge issue, but maybe its just me.

Activity
Favourites 4.25
Blogs 64
Groups 15
Bugzilla reported 8
Mediawiki edits 3
Discussion 5
Itt thanks 282
Itt posts 54
Bugzilla comments 2

I have 2965 posts, which gave me 54 karma, and 1251 thanks for a total 282 karma. This is based on 2.04 posts per day average since January 2006.

The question becomes how many karma should one app be able to generate, and are all apps equal? Should one app be able to give more karma than 2900 TMO posts? I would say no way. You got 35 for the easy debian, how many do you think you should have received?

Perhaps a way to earn additional karma when updates are published for a app, or additional for porting to new maemo version.

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Last edited by penguinbait; 2010-01-13 at 19:03.

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