^Doesn't it already do that? I have an entry for posts, and a different one for 'thanks' - both of which I assume are a factor of the total. The thanks karma is significantly higher than the posts karma.

Equally, I'm pretty sure that a blog post with no thumbs up will get less karma than a blog with a lot of thumbs up. It's hard to be exact as karma appears only to update occasioanlly ((whereas I post almost constantly )

So that's basically what we have now, and the aim would be to tinker with the equations (and fade point) to reflect what the community deems most valuable. For practical example, I think karma for t.m.o. posts should fade faster than karma for apps - since apps last longer.

Which brings us back around to what we deem most valuable, and why. And the element that it matters because there are real-terms valuables riding on it. Do we (or Nokia) want to target where those valuables go? (Discounts for devs and t-shirts for active posters?)

See, I already consider myself amply rewarded by what I get back from the community (and you should see the look on people's faces when I say Nokia sent me to Barcelona!) When I showed a colleague the sheep game she fell over at the idea that the community was building something I'd dreamt up. I get far more than I put in already. And in terms of 'real life karma', that means I should be in negative.