Just bringing this topic to the appropriate mailing list
On the last kernel meeting [1] it was suggested negative karma points
should be linked to a reported bug which kinda makes sense if you think
about it.
What that means is that you ( as in reporter ) will no longer be able to
provide negative karma without linking it to an already existing bug report
either created by your or someone else if that came to be.
Now this has been discussed and rejected before by Fesco here [2].
From my point of view FESCO should not be sticking their nose in this
topic
since I think it's up to ourselves ( the QA community ) to decide whether
we want to implement this or not hence I posted this here to this list for
further discussion.
I myself give +1 to implement this since give negative feedback without
linking to an already existing bug report helps no one.
There was also mentioned on the meeting that reporters seem to be giving
negative karma for bugs that never where mentioned getting fixed in the
updates.
Doing this is a big NO NO since this will lead to fixes for bugs that got
mentioned being fixed in the update not reaching our end user base because
of that negative karma so I'm gonna ask reporters that did that to stop
doing that.
Thanks
JBG
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kernel/2012-June/003886.html
2.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/fesco/fesco.2010-09-07-19.30.log.html