On 5 May 2010 18:39, Curtis Hovey <[email protected]> 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. -- Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
