Question on Launchpad Karama

[Jonathan Jesse]

>
>> The karma calculation is working in the same way it was before that bug
>> was
>> introduced, which bloated our caching tables, causing everyone's karma
>> to
>> increase by huge amounts every day. Since karma degrades over time[1],
>> it's
>> expected that your karma will stay around the same amount when you're
>> working
>> at your usual pace --that's how it works for everybody.
>>
>> Note that it's very unlikely that your karma will stay exactly the same
>> during
>> a whole week (since it's updated daily), so if you keep experiencing
>> that,
>> please let me know and I'll investigate it further.
>
> I think there's two aspects of Karma that are important:
>
>  - showing what level of ongoing contribution a person is making
>
>  - showing that the sum of a person's contribution is increasing
>
> So, I'd expect to keep the same karma if I keep doing good work at same
> level of intensity.  But, also, I want to see some direct feedback of
> how many karma points I earned in total, and how many I earned recently,
> so I can feel that I'm continually achieving.
>
> --
> Steve Alexander
>
>
I agree w/ Steve.  I thought I should have seen my Karma increasing based
on the amount of "work" I was doing in dealing w/ bugs, etc.  But since I
posted the originial email, my Karma has actually decreased.  Here is my
karma log from my launchpad page

  Requested for information on a ticket  2007-02-12
  Bug Comment Added  2007-02-09
  Bug Comment Added  2007-02-09
  Bug Comment Added  2007-02-09
  Bug Comment Added  2007-02-07
  Bug Comment Added  2007-02-07
  Bug Comment Added  2007-02-06
  Bug Marked as Duplicate  2007-02-06
  Bug Comment Added  2007-02-06
  Bug Rejected  2007-02-05

-- 
Jonathan Jesse