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Re: Article scoring
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 4 Mar 2000 02:56:23 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Richard Franks writes:
> > Sounds funky! What would be nice is a Top (X) messages of the
> > hour/day/week/month/etc page. Although, would that bias then be an unfair
> > one?
> >
> > Ie - as traffic gets busier, more and more people might just decide to view
> > the the days most popular messages board instead of hunting the newsgroups
> > themselves and finding overlooked gems.
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> You mean a positive-feedback loop producing progressively higher and higher
> values for popular articles? That's what the sqrt() function is for -- to
> dampen by applying a nonlinear but still monotonically increasing function
> to the divisor.
No, I think he means: create a place where the most positive-feedback messages
of the day/week/time unit are displayed, so that people don't have to read all
the letters and check each scoring individually, but find all the 'popular'
messages in one place.
> > Maybe if votes that were referenced from the Top X page, were weighted
> > differently?
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> Well, there's really no way to tell where an article is referenced from in
> the sense of where someone first read it. Someone might first read it on
> a "top x" page, or in their newsreader, or from somewhere else. All you
> can know from the referring page is where someone last viewed it -- a
> mechanism which is easily defeated by re-summoning up an article from a
> different click-path and then voting from there.
Yeah... I agree.
-Shiri
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| (...) Wait, are you talking now about the slope of the function or the value of the function? I thought Richard was asking if having a "Top X" list sorted by the value of the scoring function (not its slope or second derivative, which would have (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) You mean a positive-feedback loop producing progressively higher and higher values for popular articles? That's what the sqrt() function is for -- to dampen by applying a nonlinear but still monotonically increasing function to the divisor. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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