Karma not being transferred on account merge

On #launchpad on 2006-11-01, stub wrote:

[20:22] <stub> yama: Please file a bug against Launchpad and assign it to me (Karma not being transferred on account merge or some such).

I've confirmed that Karma is being migrated. In particular, we have karma associated with the sridhar account from 5 months before the account was created. The score changes would just be due to the normal daily recalculation, which reduces old karma and recalculates the scaling factors used to normalize the various karma categories.

I'm sorry, but I think there may be a misunderstanding here.

My original account was lordyama, not sridhar. Whatever karma was attributed to sridhar prior to me claiming it is not mine. As mentioned earlier, lordyama had > 130000 karma points prior to transferring. Currently sridhar has 52016, and it had 0 when I moved to it. I find it difficult to believe that the karma accumulated for lordyama, which was accrued over only about five or six months, could have dropped so far in such a short period, even after 'recalculations'. It seems awfully convenient that such a recalibration occurred as I moved my profile to another account.

I still believe that I am missing much of the karma that I once owned.

I still believe that I am missing much of the karma that I once owned. See my previous comment.

The karma attributed to sridhar from before the account existed was the karma transferred from lordyama. There is no karma associated with the (now deactivated) lordyama account - it was all merged. A heap of translation events from May, July, August. Also Karma for creating a bug in September - Bug 58685 - which could have only been created originally by the lordyama account as the sridhar account did not exist until almost two months later.

Details about why Karma fluctuates can be found at https://help.launchpad.net/KarmaCalculation