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[curtis Hovey <curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/21/2012 04:16 PM, Stuart Bishop wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Matthew Revell

>> What does rebalancing give us? Seemingly unfair karma scores.
> 
> Automatic rebalancing makes the karma scores fairer, because different
> regions of Launchpad have never had their scores manually balanced. It
> is unfair if 1 minutes effort working on bugs is worth the same as 20
> minutes of working on translations.
> 
> Now we have a better idea of what Launchpad looks like and how people
> use it, we can go through and rebalance the scores ourselves and turn
> off the automatic rebalancing. This will turn off the wobble (except
> when we manually tweak the scores again), and should be even fairer.
> mpt's old suggestion was for scores to be effort based - say 60 points
> for 1 minutes worth of effort. We should by now be able to actually
> score these events like that.

I favour making all karma actions worth 0. There are several like than
in answers. It permits us to track the event without putting a value.
The points and the notion of time to do an action are bogus.

As I argued in https://dev.launchpad.net/Registry/RegistryKarma, the
real value we want to know is who is helped. The user, the project's
only community, several communities in a project, or several communities
in several projects. This is still very difficult to know. This LEP was
rejected.

I prefer Matthews suggestion of removing the numbers (hence 0 karma
value). We can count events by day/week/month/year if users want a number.

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Curtis Hovey
http://launchpad.net/~sinzui

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