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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 19:52:47 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> 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.
nodnod, that's what I expect from the top40 page, but for the spotlight
(which I do like to think of as day oriented) the age of the message
shouldn't matter that much, cause the set we're ranking is (should be,
IMO) restricted to one day...
:)
Dan
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