Comment 2 for bug 415346

Thanks for the heads up, shalabh. It's not that I was worried about the karma being credited, it was after all clear that updates occur once every 24h.

I hope the Launchpad team will consider adding a differentiation between 'karma has at some point been earned, but has currently expired' and 'karma has yet to be earned at all', that or perhaps change the wording surrounding an empty karma balance to address this.

This could be a matter of checking if the historical number of contributions is greater than zero and the account is older than 1 day; use 'expired' in that case.

Something along the lines of 'You have yet to earn karma, or less than a day has passed since your first contribution(s). <This document> offers some suggestions on how you can contribute to Ubuntu.' might be an idea for 1 or more contributions but the account isn't yet old enough to have had the first status update run.

It is after all a bit confusing to read about non-existent karma having expired. ;)