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Re: Ratings thrown out; changed to Highlighting (was: Re: the latest news)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:49:39 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger writes:
> > > shouldn't it sort by rating, perhaps with a time formula to lower the
> > > rating?
> >
> > It would quite easy to offer a sorting choice --
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> > a) Newest first ("weblog" style)
> > b) Most recommended first ("weekly top 40" style)
> > c) Fuzzy combination of both ("today's top stories" style)
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> mmm... fuzzy :) by day then by rating? nod... even put a separator
> between days, somewhat like the current (Static) spotlight...
Hmm...Maybe, but I meant fuzzy in the fuzzy-logic sense -- take the internal
score (0-100) and convert it to a real number in the unit interval [0,1], then
take the age of the message relative to the specified time period and make
that also a number in the unit interval [0,1]. Then combine those two numbers
(either via addition or multiplication or max-function) and sort by that.
I believe this is the algorithm used by "real" news like, for example, CNN
Headline News. It lets something slightly older but with a higher score
outrank something slightly newer but with a lower score, but also lets
something newer with a high score outrank something older with the same score.
Thus, everything making it into that list starts out at some position and then
either goes up a bit (if more people come along and rate it higher) but always
is guaranteed to drop at some point. Super-duper-duper important news tends
to hover near the top much longer than "only" important news.
--Todd
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