About the Karma algebra...

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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On Mar 26, 2006, at 10:44 PM, Lionel Dricot wrote:
> ...
> 1) The decrease rate must only be proportionnal to your actual karma
> and nothing else. It must not take care about when you've got those
> point.

Why?

> ATM, it seems that one karma point lost for a given time and decrease.
> It's not really funny because it means that if you had a big burst of
> activity 2 months ago (and then a big burst of karma), you will have a
> big fall of karma today.

No, the karma gain algorithm had some heavy adjustments last week that 
made it jump around. The decay algorithm is still the same, though: 
when you earn some karma, it decays at a constant rate, reaching zero a 
year after you earned it.

> ...
> 2) Displaying only the logX of the Karma.
> ...

That's a nifty idea, though it would hide bugs in the karma code, so we 
might not want to do it for a while yet. Perhaps you could report it as 
a bug on the Launchpad product.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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