Put the karma of each commenter next to its name

[Lionel Dricot]

Displaying karma next to the name of each commenter in a bug or a support answer can be a very useful information about the supposed accuracy of the answer.

It is done on GNOME bugzilla.

Do we want to do the same on launchpad ?

For new users, would displaying the karma be frightenned to them or, a contrario, helping them to see who is who ?

[Brad Bollenbach (bradb)]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 10:42 +0000, Lionel Dricot wrote:
> Public bug reported:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/37307
>
> Affects: malone (upstream)
> Severity: Normal
> Priority: (none set)
> Status: Unconfirmed
>
> Description:
> Displaying karma next to the name of each commenter in a bug or a
> support answer can be a very useful information about the supposed
> accuracy of the answer.
>
> It is done on GNOME bugzilla.
>
> Do we want to do the same on launchpad ?
>
> For new users, would displaying the karma be frightenned to them or, a
> contrario, helping them to see who is who ?

I like this idea in principle, but in practice, our karma system is
still maturing and there's still quite a bit of fluctuation in the
system. Because of these problems, I don't think displaying karma beside
a commenter's name will communicate the intended message.

mpt, what do you think?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Unlike Gnome Bugzilla, Launchpad displays people's names in many different places, and eventually every one of these should be presented the same way. Having lots of karma numbers in (for example) a list of subscribers would be lots of clutter.

One alternative would be to incorporate karma somehow when generating the person's icon. With more than X karma your icon dons a propeller cap, more than Y it dons a beret, more than Z the beret gets a hackle ...