Really?

As one of the initial promoters of the user karma concept I must say that I'm not so sure about translating it to meego.com. I wonder if it hasn't created more trouble than benefit, and if the benefits couldn't be achieved through other ways.

Ranking user "experience" is useful and many community tools do that. The problem comes (and we have got looong discussions) when comparing karma values for different actions.

For instance, GNOME's bugzilla has a rating system which is very useful (and Andre scores at above-the-sky levels there). There is Ohloh for open source developers, also with a system to get public scores. In forums you have that combination of registered date + posts + thanks that actually works most of the times. There are ways to rate news and comments. There are ways to rate apps. I'm sure it is trivial to rank wiki editors, etc...

So really, before thinking of pushing the concept of karma to meego.com I invite the Maemo community to think if we really want to do this, and for what reasons.