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Karma system: Just a thought to be considered
As the karma system is used in this forum, it mixes up 2 totally different, contradicting concepts -- to the disadvantage of us all:
- Karma has been introduced as a mechanism to ensure quality.
- Voting is used as a mechanism to find out what users want (and to what extend, most users most urgently or is it rather a minority being interested in that feature / debugging that bug etc.)
This means: People get most karma for posting feature requests etc. that have majority appeal -- within the current forum community. People mainly do not get karma for ensuring quality of this forum (e.g. by tidying up, providing HowTos, giving useful comments). But Karma is required for certain quality improvement tasks.
(Community wiki, no karma earned through voting.)
Karma system: Just a thought to be considered
As the karma system is used in this forum, it mixes up 2 totally different, contradicting concepts -- to the disadvantage of us all:
- Karma has been introduced as a mechanism to ensure quality.
- Voting is used as a mechanism to find out what users want (and to what extend, most users most urgently or is it rather a minority being interested in that feature / debugging that bug etc.)
This means: People get most karma for posting feature requests etc. that have majority appeal -- within the current forum community. People mainly do not get karma for ensuring quality of this forum (e.g. by tidying up, providing HowTos, giving useful comments). But Karma is required for certain quality improvement tasks.
(Community wiki, no karma earned through voting.)
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Karma system: Just a thought to be considered
As The way, the karma system is used in this forum, it mixes up 2 totally different, contradicting concepts -- to the disadvantage of us all:
- Karma has been introduced as a mechanism to ensure quality.
- Voting is used as a mechanism to find out what users want (and to what extend, most users most urgently or is it rather a minority being interested in that feature / debugging that bug etc.)
This means: People get most karma for posting feature requests etc. that have majority appeal -- within the current forum community. People mainly do not get karma for ensuring quality of this forum (e.g. by tidying up, providing HowTos, giving useful comments). But Karma is required for certain quality improvement tasks.
(Community wiki, no karma earned through voting.)