Hi, Andrew Flegg wrote: > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only problem here is people changing their nicks, hence the IRC > field on someone's profile probably needs to handle comma-separated > nicks (or we discourage changing nicks anyway).
Agree on discouraging :) >> How would we translate that to karma? > > 0.0001 karma point per line, or something? Perhaps a log scale for > those who have *way* too much time. +1 on a log or power rule. sqrt is fine, not quite as brutal as log2. N sqrt(N) log2(N) 1 1 1 5 2 3 10 3 4 50 7 6 100 10 7 1000 31 10 10000 100 14 >> A karmabot that keeps count & updates the midgard database daily? > > That would be one approach. mgedmin's already doing it, though. I always suspected mgedmin was a bot... thanks for the confirmation ;) > But that's a scaling factor. Introducing a maximum's saying "we value > this contribution, but - once you've done it X times - you might as > well stop". Just so I'm not misunderstood - this is a maximum number of points per blog entry, not a maximum number of blogging points, that I'm proposing. > For example, when karma was introduced it was suggested that it could > be used to help determine who might get any future potential device > programme discounts. a) this should favour people who are currently > more active than were just *very* active 3 years ago; b) it should be > possible to eye the top 50-100-200 karma ratings for any tweak and say > "does this roughly look like the names I'd expect to see"? It would be nice to depreciate karma over time but right now it's not incremental - you don't get new karma points for what you did this last week, every night your entire karma contribution is recalculated (this takes about 90 minutes for everyone these days, I believe). The easiest thing to do if we did incremental karma would be to multiply everyone's existing karma by a factor (say 0.8) on a given date every year. That way, stuff you did 2 years ago is worth only 0.64 times what you do today. But since the system doesn't' work that way, and I believe it'd be a big job to convert it to that, I don't think the return on investment is there. Not knowing midgard, I'm guessing here, but if we did store karma in a database table, we could duplicate the table on a given date, and generate a second list "karma points this year" by subtracting karma at the beginning of the year from karma on a given day? Seems like that wouldn't be too hard, and would give a way of seeing current activity, but without depreciating old karma. Cheers, Dave. -- maemo.org docsmaster Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community
