Rating System: Topic vs Message ratings

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Aron Schatz

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Rating System: Topic vs Message ratings

Mon Aug 7, 2006 12:14:12 PM #20370 Perm Link

I believe that the message ratings should influence the topic ratings that a thread gets...

For instance, if there are 5 posts in a thread and 3 posts have +3, perhaps the topic should be rated to a +2 because of that...

Or, a topic has 70 posts and there are 4 posts that have more than +8, perhaps another point?

At what point does the amount of messages actually play into a topic rating and when does it stop? I don't think topics with less than 4 posts should be able to be rated by the messages alone. I also think that if a really good thread has good information and the posts are getting rated well, the topic should show that.

I'm very open to how the system should work. Any ideas?

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Re: Rating System: Topic vs Message ratings

Mon Aug 7, 2006 4:45:46 PM #20415 Perm Link

In response to Aron Schatz #20370

I think any rating system that is made will need to be constantly updated and tweaked. I say go for it and we can see how it works out.

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Aron Schatz

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Mon Aug 7, 2006 6:31:27 PM #20418 Perm Link

Here is the formula I'm currently using to add to the topic voted count for the messages...

sumrating is the sum of all ratings in a thread.
totalvotedcount is the count of messages that got rated
totalcount is the number of posts in a thread.

rating=(10*(sumrating+(floor(totalvotedcount/25))))/(totalcount*totalvotedcount)

The rating cannot be higher than sumrating/totalvotedcount either and this addition only adds when there are at least 15 posts.

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