On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 05:49 +0100, Martin Pool wrote: > On 5 May 2010 18:39, Curtis Hovey <curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My fundamental question is: Will awarding karma for actions that help > > communities encourage users to provide the missing information? > > I think you're right that some users care about karma (I personally > don't much.) But there is another difference between activities like > Answers and Bug triage, and registry data. When you answer a question > you're very clearly helping out another human being, and there is even > a chance they will show gratitude either informally or through the > Thanks button. This also acts as a social check that the action is > actually constructive. > > With things like linking a branch to a series it's unclear in the ui > that it helps someone and no one will thank you, so I think adding > Karma would only address one part of user motivation. Perhaps not the > most important part too. I agree. Launchpad has a systemic problem where it does not emphasis that projects and information are shared by communities. Users needs to know that can help someone before we offer karma as encouragement. I need to think about how we can incorporate these messages into the tasks. The registry team played an experiment a few months ago where I rewrote the message on the source package page that explains linking to a projects helps users. We played the telephone game and the final version of the message was very much like the message we already had. I do not think that message is very good though. We used it for 4 years without seeing an improvement in the trend of packaging links. -- __Curtis C. Hovey_________ http://launchpad.net/
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