 | | Re: Spotlight Filter —David Eaton
| | | | (...) I think the *best* thing to do would be to have users put their own rankings in. "Posts to .pirates get +2, posts to .fabuland get -1, posts by my buddy get +1, etc". But that means re-ranking things constantly, since there's no time limit (...) (20 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Spotlight Filter —David Eaton
| | | | | | (...) Oops, my mistake-- I'm told there's a limit of posts within 10 days. Hence the re-ranking has to query all posts within 10 days (roughly 1000 posts at the current level of traffic). (That does admittedly make FAR more sense-- I always thought (...) (20 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Spotlight Filter —Jeff Findley
| | | | | (...) This is pretty much exactly what I was thinking. The calculation of the "top 50", without weightings, shouldn't be much more expensive than the current calculation of the "top 10". This is because you've got to calculate a score for every (...) (20 years ago, 19-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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