Comment 3 for bug 5482

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 06:01:36PM -0000, Guilherme Salgado wrote:
> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/5482
>
> Comment:
> The current behaviour is what's in the
> https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/KarmaImplementation spec, and I
> don't think it's a problem.

I think Brad has a good point. KarmaImplementation doesn't provide any
examples of how karma is changing during time, thus there's no
rationale for the specific formula that's given. I think it's OK to
have karma disappear over time, but at the moment it's degrading too
fast, I think it would better to adjust the formula, so that you divide
into into a few more time periods, so that you don't have to start
deducting 50% of the karma. For example, after a while the gathered
karma is worth 90%, then 80%, and so on. Not sure exactly how many
steps there should be, and what the time periods should be. It
deserves a small spec, where example of reasonable karma activities are
given, and how they change during time.

It probably would be worth to skip showing the actual numbers, and show
levels instead. This, though, should be done only after the karma
system has stabilised, and when we can analyse the current karma activity
and choose reasonable levels.