Karma points disapear

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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On Jan 31, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Matthew East wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 20:05 +0100, Mr Canis wrote:
> ...
>> yesterday I had a karma over 300000, today I have only 13321. Where 
>> they are gone? Have anyone experienced the same? Or have a idea what 
>> happens? Or perhaps I'm not well behaved. ~:(
>
> The same happened to everyone - clearly a bit better communication 
> would probably have helped though.

We have a brief explanation of the problem
<https://help.launchpad.net/KarmaAdjustmentsJan07>, but we neglected to 
post to this mailing list about it. Sorry about that.

We're considering other ways to communicate changes like this better 
(such as a Launchpad status Weblog).

> A more interesting question for me is on what basis the karma has been
> reduced. The main problem with the previous karma was that people
> contributing to the support tracker were getting seriously more karma
> than anyone else, people contributing to specifications were getting
> quite a lot (which is probably justified) and bug contributions were
> pretty undervalued. From a quick eyeballing of a few significant
> contributors, that doesn't seem to have changed, people's numbers have
> got lower but their relationship with each other is still pretty
> similar. Is this documented somewhere?
> ...

This is a separate problem, which I reported as a bug in November.
<https://launchpad.net/bugs/72815>

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