The karma stat got updated to better reflect the current size of
geocaching.  The origional karma was a hard number of 1 cache hidden for
every 20 found.  We made that ratio up in a time that if you had 20
caches found at all, you were doing really good and it was about time
you hid one too.
So, just like when Bill Gates announced that you would never need more
than 640K of ram, we realized that 20 these days was probably a fairly
low number and might encourage people to hide them too quickly.

The new karma is based on a moving target so that we shouldn't have to
update it again.  The new target is 1 cache hidden for every 5% of the
total caches in existance found, so currently it's 1 cache hidden for
every 48.4 caches found.... a much more reasonable number.

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek

On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 23:12, Team Tierra Buena wrote:
> Not sure when it happened, but there are some *startlingly* different
> numbers in the Cache Karma column of the team standings. 
>  
> Now we have to worry about fractional karma? What do these new figures
> represent, O Wise Ones?
>  
> Steve
> Team Tierra Buena