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Suggesting DeletedPage. There is almost nothing here, and actually nothing worth history. Not to mention this is BadTerminology. Or am I missing something? -- dmppanda 2008-02-19 15:48:24
Karma System
Tentative Summary
KarmaSystem is BadTerminology that means two different things:
A VoteWeights-System would be a continuous scale (a floating point value) on which the weight of a users vote changes. Thus a 'good' users vote would count more than a newbies'.
An EditorRights-System talks about a fixed number of discreet states (an integer value) of user rights i.e. what a user is allowed to do. Here a 'good' user would be allowed to AutoEdit many types of edits. Whereas a newbies would still need his edits to be voted upon. There would be some states in between. Soemthing like spammer, newbie, medium, advanced, half-god, god :-).
EditorRating is about EditorRights. There was a discussion about VoteWeights (around SurvivalOfTheFittest and AdvancedModeration) but it seems to be rather outdated. I suppose the VoteWeights-approach has been dropped because it does not solve the VotingDisaster. --DonRedman
Old Discussion
Currently there are 2 classes of editors - newbie and AutoEditor. A newbie has to get all their changes passed with a vote. An AutoEditor has almost all their suggested changes passed immediately. There is an EarningPrivileges proposal that aims to extend this to several more classes of editor.
The idea of a KarmaSystem (or EditorRating), is that, like EarningPrivileges, editors would be assessed automatically on the changes they make and their accuracy, and get a score on a sliding scale of newbie - total AutoEditor. Having a higher rating would mean that your suggestions required less votes to pass and that your votes counted for more than people with lower ratings.
The main difference between a KarmaSystem and EarningPrivileges is that a KarmaSystem would be a continuous scale (a floating point value) on which the weight of a users vote changes. Whereas EarningPrivileges talks about a fixed number of discreet states (an integer value) of user rights i.e. what a user is allowed to do.
Actually "Karma" is BadTerminology. We should use EditorRating instead.