Not sure about that. There was a guy who knew his stuff and ran the build and version control system at my last job. You had to kiss his butt to get things done (=pay karma), but I wouldn't call him nice.
What it overemphasizes is jobs that benefit multiple people in visible ways. At my last job, I wrote code used by the internal QA team of 50 people that made their lives easier. I imagine that would earn a lot of karma. On the other hand, when I worked on a bug for an external customer, only my manager would care.
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This idea if implemented would measure niceness (political sleekness) but not productivity.
Not sure about that. There was a guy who knew his stuff and ran the build and version control system at my last job. You had to kiss his butt to get things done (=pay karma), but I wouldn't call him nice.
What it overemphasizes is jobs that benefit multiple people in visible ways. At my last job, I wrote code used by the internal QA team of 50 people that made their lives easier. I imagine that would earn a lot of karma. On the other hand, when I worked on a bug for an external customer, only my manager would care.