I like to return to others the pleasure and joy that gives me every new cache, so I always like to acchieve the good karma geocaching.
I noticed that Caching Karma is commonly reffered as the ratio of the total number of finds of your caches divided by the number of your finds.
Well, each one is only half responsible for this equation... and in some cases, the less the caches you find, would give you a better karma... strange enough!?
So I propose another way to calculate the karma... a more personal one... more dependent from each one caching behaviour.
It would be the ratio of your finds divided by the total of your owned caches.
So, by example... a geocacher with 20 owned caches (founded 3000 times) and 1500 finds, would have a Caching Karma of 2... and a Personal Caching Karma of 75.
Lets say that he went to a sabatic period without caching for some time... the personal finds will remain the same (1500) but everybody continues to search for their caches until the total of finds is 5000.
He would have a Caching Karma of 3.3 (without any caching activity, remember?), but the Personal Caching Karma would remain the same (reflecting that inactivity).
It seems to me a more wise way to calculate each ones caching karma.
What do you think?