64Digits

Posted by Taizen Chisou on Feb. 14, 2013, 1:42 a.m.

So me and my fits of insomniac boredom decided to come up with a way to quantify how objectively popular a given blog post is.

The formula is as follows:

(A + 3B + 30C + D) * log10 ( E )

over

1 + F

A: Number of comments a blog has

B: Number of +1's tagged on the blog post

C: Whether or not the blog is pinned

D: The number of +1's on the one comment with the highest amount of them

E: The user's total page views

F: Full 24-hour periods that have elapsed since posting of blog

Hey, RC posted a blog!

At this exact moment it's sitting at 42 Hotness Points. 4 comments, +1, highest rated comment is +2…

I went and calculated a few others.

Dumb sharing: 286 points

Creme egg: 153 points

Thank you blog: 172 points

Finn the baby, 2 days ago: 228 points

Finn the baby, today: 195 points

Favorite chords: 40 points

Day 54: 212 points

It doesn't do so well when faced with old blogs though.

64jam: ~~40 points~~ damn it this blog is pinned I MEANT 54

Inability to Anything: 19 points

Music Challenge: 25 points

Taizen Chisou's Blog of Horribleness: 0.03 points

Its nothing serious. I was just bored >_>;

Oh well. I'll probably be referring to this when we get more of those surge blogs where everyone stays online and does nothing but 4chan it the fuck up. Those are fun.

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poultry 11 years, 10 months ago

^I'll post here just to say that might maybe somewhat dunno sounds good

Toast 11 years, 10 months ago

Quote:

4chan it the fuck up

I believe the term your looking for is "shitposting"

Taizen Chisou 11 years, 10 months ago

I dunno, wouldn't it impose a strain on the server?

Unaligned 11 years, 10 months ago

What, a few calculations and then sorting some items from highest to lowest?

JuurianChi 11 years, 10 months ago

Oh yes.

So very much strain.

Taizen Chisou 11 years, 10 months ago

You imply that I know anything about this. I'm guessing.

poultry 11 years, 10 months ago

Before I really look into this, what did you base this of? Your own research?

Taizen Chisou 11 years, 10 months ago

It's completely arbitrary!

I just figured that blogs could be assigned a rating based on a number of things.

Comments and +1's are easy enough to understand, but,

If something is pinned, I feel like some mod thought it was worthy of site attention,

And the person who posted the blog would have a little influence on it too- hence the logarithm for the person's total blog view count.

The highest number of +1's on a single comment I think is indicative of individual viewers who's checking out the blog and their collective opinions on things.

And then of course if it's been a long time since the blog has been posted, then it's activity could be said to be slowing down, right?

Toast 11 years, 10 months ago

In practice you'd probably be better off doing whatever Reddit do exactly.

I have suggested Redditifying the front page, but actually the site doesn't have enough content coming in every day to warrant something like that. A "what's hot" feature wouldn't be useful unless there was >10 blogs per day

Still. Interesting idea, even if this "popularity points" formula is the magic number to rule all magic numbers.

Charlie Carlo 11 years, 10 months ago

You forgot about the Charlie factor, where you multiply the entire equation to the power of how many names the poster has that start with C…

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