Comment 5 for bug 475894

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i) IRC help
j) Forums posts/help

There's a lot that people do outside of lp which isn't measured with karma. The only reason I have seen karma _used_ is when we (the membership boards) use it as a general indication of someone's work in the Ubuntu Community when they go for Ubuntu Membership. It isn't the only thing we look at but it's a good first indicator. We look into more than that which is why we ask people to update their wiki page with details of and links to pages showing their work in the community. If someone comes to us with a blank wiki page and lots of karma they'll likely be asked to come back when they have more detail on their wiki page, even if they have plenty of karma.

When someone comes to us for membership and they have some other community involvement and activity which isn't measured in karma, we look at it. We look at the forum posts they have done, the marketing materials they've made, their mailing list postings, and anything else they have to offer. If brainstorm posts was one of those, I'm sure that would be taken into consideration, but so far that I recall nobody has ever brought that up as a "here's why I should get membership" criteria - not in the EMEA Membership Board that I'm on, anyway.

Note that for some while I used to have more karma than anyone else on launchpad and I haven't written a single line of code :)