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What exactly does the phrase "karma has expired" mean?

Asked by Ed S on 2010-05-05

I understand that karma for activities done 'today' is added in a batch calculation at the end of the day... but despite searching help and questions, I have not understood why my account shows "karma has expired":

Ed S's karma has expired.
Total karma: 2170

Other questions concerning expired karma were from accounts that had zero karma value, but I have some value for recent activities, as seen from the paste above. I don't understand the phrase itself - "karma has expired". It sounds bad - and at the rate I have been active over the last few days, I cannot see any reason for any sort of negative action on my account's karma... if this is indeed negative.

Could somebody please define exactly what the phrase "karma has expired" means?

Thank you,
Ed.

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Curtis Hovey
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2010-05-06
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2010-05-05
Ed S (edgar-b-dsouza) said : #1

Heh - timing and coincidences... I went back to my karma details page after posting this question, and refreshed it, to see that the ominous message had disappeared, and was replaced with a new karma value (and the breakup table):

This is a summary of the Launchpad karma earned by Ed S, organized by activity type.
Answer Tracker 2208
Bazaar Branches 94
Bug Management 47
Total karma: 2349

So... does "expired" mean "value shown is outdated"/"needs to be updated"/"will be updated soon"? If yes, could a clearer, more understandable, and less frightening message be put in there, please?

I'd still like an answer about what exactly that scary phrase means, though! :-)

Thanks,
Ed.

Best Curtis Hovey (sinzui) said : #2

The insane message was cause the the karma-cache upadate script. Everyone has expired karma as their numbers were recalculated.

Ed S (edgar-b-dsouza) said : #3

Thanks Curtis Hovey, that solved my question.

Ed S (edgar-b-dsouza) said : #4

Thanks, Curtis... I like your adjective for the message - it was like a "whaaaaat!" moment for me, when I read that for the first time

:-)

Thanks,
Ed.

zhongjun (jun-zhongjun) said : #5

How to resovle it? Thanks.