About the Karma algebra...

[Lionel Dricot]

On 3/26/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I know that we don't work for karma, but karma is fun. It's like you
> > were playing a big game and that's really fun. It could be a
> > motivation for a new user to deep into the community. It is also
> > useful to know what trust you can have when someone telling you to do
> > something. When I do bug triaging, I often look at the Karma of people
> > to quickly see if they are experienced users with Launchpad and Ubuntu
>
> So should we display beside our names in LP reports the number of
> karma points we have (like they do in bugzilla.gnome.org) as a quick
> way to judge of how active the reporter/commenter was when quickly
> scanning a bug report?  Or that's putting too much emphasis on the LP
> karma?

I would be tempted to say : yes, put it next our names !
It would be really useful for me and perhaps for others.

But I can understand that we want to have a lower entry point that 
BGO. On GNOME Bzilla, we find users that are aware of GNOME and what
GNOME is, so they are "technically aware people".
IMHO, LP want to be much more accessible. Every Ubuntu user must be
able to report a bug.
Would displaying the karma be frightenned to them or, a contrario,
helping them to see who is who ?

Would displaying the karma be annoying for people with low karma ? (I
don't want to post here, I have the lowest karma in the comments for
this bug, ...)

I honnestly don't know. It would be useful for people like me and I
would vote for it, but I'm hopefully not alone on LP. Some will even
find this karma thing silly... (that's perhaps why I like it so much )

Lionel