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Re: Spotlight Filter
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:24:46 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, David Eaton wrote:
But that means re-ranking things constantly, since there's no time limit
IIRC. So a post from 3 months ago could theoretically be considered if it
were ridiculously spotlighted, or even if all *other* groups were downvoted.

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 it was odd that it
did it for "all time", I had thought there was some clever bit of logic done
detecting spotlights beyond N days in the past or something)

DaveE



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  Re: Spotlight Filter
 
(...) 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 (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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