Hi Pedro, *, On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Pedro <pedl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Christian Lohmaier-3 wrote >> >> [...] and make use of your votes (so that other >> people get their karma, and to make it easier to distinguish >> "good/interesting" and "waste-of-time" questions :-) > > Unfortunately the karma points in askbot are unrealistic (not to say > useless).
No, they are not. It would be pointless if you could gain moderator powers within two days of spamming askbot. Karma is not a one-shot thing. And yes, LibreOffice askbot-instance did not start in bootstrap mode with reduced karma, but started off with using the default/producition limits. (So I understand that people think that the limits are high) > Not even you have enough karma points to do what you are asking > others to help with. Of course I have - and you have so too. Since the main way to get karma is to use your votes. People don't have karma, because people don't make use of their votes and don't make use of flagging an answer as correct. So it it a learning process into getting to know how the platform works. Changing it the other way round will not be done. Then the karma-stuff would be useless and we would have a lot more administrational effort. Similar with spam - just flag it as inappropriate and it will be hidden from other users after a couple of different people did so. Becoming a moderator starts with understanding how the platform works, and that is mainly by using your votes freely, giving answeres that are upvoted, flagged as correct. People with enough karma are automatically qualified by the process of earning their karmapoints. And if you're a TDF-member and want to have moderator-level karma, feel free to ping the website list (or me personally) then I'll pull some karma out-of-the-sky for your account. > http://ask.libreoffice.org/faq/ > > This means that only admins can do that. So it doesn't make sense to ask for > help and referring to karma points. Maybe my post was misleading - The reason why I posted to the list is to make people use their votes, ask for comments, etc. So yes - so far there are no "moderators-by-earnt-karma", only moderators-because-admin. But that only was a part of the post. > BTW I sent another email through the "Give Feedback" form on Feb 23rd > precisely about karma points. F*k - I wrote a reply, but forgot to include you... Sorry for that, will resend and make sure to double-check next time. (email of person who asked is not included in reply-to, but only in the message text - I'm so used to only reply-to that I missed that you're not included in the list of addressees. > I never received a copy of my sent email (I assume you rejected my previous > suggestion of enabling the form to send a copy to the author) Yes, I regard it as pointless. If you want a copy for your own records, send mail to the website list directly. After all it will reach the same group of people (+ a couple more) You receiving a copy will not prevent me from making mistakes when answering, so... When not receiving a reply, you need to resend/ping people anyway, no matter whether you did receive a copy or not. > and I haven't > received an answer yet. Did forward you the reply now. Sorry again. ciao Christian _______________________________________________ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/