Comment 5 for bug 71020

Karma is currently Lanchpad karma. It is not supposed to track Ubuntu contributions, but Open Source contributions in general (at least what it is possible for us to track). It sort of works this way at the moment purely because Ubuntu is the main user of Launchpad and we are not giving Karma from external sources such as mailing lists or forums yet. However, you can also get Karma from upstream product work (bugs, translations - etc.) or from other distributions that also use Launchpad (eg. Baltix). It is quite possible for someone to have a high Karma score who hates Ubuntu with a passion and evangelizes this at every opportunity.

Karma scores are quite volatile (https://help.launchpad.net/KarmaCalculation), and we need to fix this somehow. An option would be to simply display the users position on the ladder rather than an actual score. Do you think this would be ok, or would we need both a score and a ladder position?