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