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In lugnet.admin.general, Richard Franks writes:
> Ah - yep I understood the sqrt part. What I meant is that creating a list of
> the most popular messages skews the vote - because the most votes will end up
> being put on items on the list, only because people use the list to browse.
I almost get what you're getting at, but I'm stuck on one part of it. In the
early stages of an article's appearance, let's say it's position 19 out of 20
on a top-20 page, and let's say only 7 people have voted +1 on it so far.
Should it, in it's infancy, be hindered from climbing higher just because it
happens to be on the top-20 page? I don't think so. I know what you mean
about the positive-feedback risk, but I think solved in part by making the
age of the article a factor. Since older articles will tend to have higher
scores than newer articles, the "top x of y" lists ought to normalize the
scores across the ages of the articles. (Magically and transparently to the
typical user, of course -- this is just internal geekwork here.)
Thus, a newer, fresher article's score ought to be "amplified" automatically
compared to an older article. For example, a 5-hour-old article with a score
of, say, 3.7 should win out over a 5-day-old article with a score of, say, 9.2.
--Todd
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| (...) I'm not sure if referenced votes *should* be weighted differently, I just thought I'd throw it in :) Hmm.. if you did weight top-20 page posts differently, then *really* cool posts in low-traffic groups would still get ignored.. unless you (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Ah - yep I understood the sqrt part. What I meant is that creating a list of the most popular messages skews the vote - because the most votes will end up being put on items on the list, only because people use the list to browse. From a (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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