Comment 9 for bug 337313

The thing is that in majority of cases, packagers don't really bother with translations at all, and just deliver what is in the upstream tarball after a POT is generated. For instance, Ubuntu has several packagers which upload a lot of packages, and they get their package upload karma (which is actually 10 or 5 or 1, depending on the type, and not 5000) and POT upload karma (1-10 points, depending on the number of packages uploaded).

Some people provide hundreds of POTs every few weeks through package uploads, which means that for a translator to be comparable to them, he'd have to provide same number of actual translations. I believe that's disproportionate as well.

Of course, this would be unfair to people (like you) who do their "published" imports manually, but at the moment, there is no way for us to make a distinction, so we can't fix that in an easy way.