Re: new feature for Red - adaptive scoring

[larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)]

Wes Hardaker <hardaker@ece.ucdavis.edu> writes:

> I'm not sure you can do it with percentiles though.  Postive scores
> would never get to 0, which you'ld definately want.  I think a better
> thing to do would be to have it change by a set amount each time.
> Positive scores should drop by say 3-5 unless the current score was
> under that, then should drop to 0.  Negative scores would do the same.
> That way old threads no longer existing would eventually end up at 0
> in case some other dingo came along and started a new topic with the
> same subject.

Score rules that haven't been used for 7 days (or so) are removed, so
that shouldn't really be a problem, I would think...  The point of the
decay thing is to avoid having all the things you like reach posinf
while the things you don't like would reach neginf, isn't it?

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