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Karma

Karma is the movement's record of the real political work a citizen actually did.

You log what you did — a call placed, a meeting held, a challenger vetted, a source added, an explainer published — with a link and a description as evidence. Each action type is worth points. Points accumulate. At the close of each month they are summarised into a normalized monthly karma score, and from that point on everything downstream runs on monthly scores rather than raw points.

Why karma is called a score when a politician's award is not​

This looks like an inconsistency and it is a deliberate distinction.

Karma is something a citizen earns by their own logged, corroborated work, voluntarily, in a system they chose to join. Scoring it is fair.

An award is something the movement gives a public figure on the strength of a public record they never volunteered for. Calling that a "score" would make it a grade on a person, which is a claim the movement does not make.

So citizen scoring keeps the word "score" throughout, and everything published about a politician is an award or the absence of one.

Raw points are treated as noise​

A day's points mean almost nothing. Somebody with a free Saturday can outscore somebody who did the hardest thing anybody did that month.

So the month is the unit. Raw daily points are working state; the monthly score is the record, and it is normalized so it is comparable across citizens, across tracks, and across communities.

Where it goes​

  • Your karma dashboard — this month, a per-week bar chart, and your lifetime total.
  • The leaderboard.
  • Your merit weight in the meritocracy — verified actions are one of its inputs.
  • The Leader History Book, for contributions that changed something.

Pages in this area​

Where to go next​

  • Take Action — the area before this one, and where the points come from.
  • Open Data — the area after this one.
  • Meritocracy — the other citizen-side ledger, kept deliberately separate.
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