Comment 1 for bug 72815

Just switching this off will cause new problems - it needs much further discussion and a spec that addresses the reasons the balancing was implemented in the first place.

  - Nobody has ever actually gone through the Karma list to assign the correct number of points to each action. We just have guesses.
  - By weighting categories we encourage use of the less popular parts of Launchpad.

I've previously suggested a tweak to the existing balancing - if we simply round the scaling factors to the nearest 10, 50 or 100 then the jumps will become much less frequent.

I think the idea of using 'estimated minutes' is a decent idea, and the first proposal I've seen for choosing Karma scores for actions besides pulling a number out of a convenient orifice.

We should also switch to using log(karma)*factor instead of raw karma at the same time which has previously been discussed.