[not2serious]

Originally Posted by hobgobbler

I'm trying to divide the number of votes by the number of days ago it was submitted to get "gravity" and use that to decide the order of links on index.php. I think it would work well with the Stars voting method. I just don't know how to do it.

I am in the same boat with you, as far as writing code goes. I would suggest a modification to the formula for the five star method.

Instead of using the vote total, how about using the vote average? This would allow the posts with higher vote averages to decend down the index list at a slower pace than the votes with a lower average rating.

[chriswithpepper]

Excellent hack. Thanks!

[Unknown]

Can someone make a small how-to on how to modify the code to create something like everyone has been suggesting:

Gravity = Averagevotes/timeofsubmission

Then sort the published page by gravity. But we must not forget that the story should disappear after a defined amount of time that we can set.

I hate formulas, I cant manage to configure anything in it.

[nzbullet]

Originally Posted by dollars5

Actually we did for a client to have a very custom formula and it involved few code changes that did more than just ordering the posts. If you are looking for just ordering based on any recent activity linka's code would come to your rescue.

Was the "gravity mod" a paid mod or something that has/will be shared with the pligg community. I ask as I would like to have Gravity and not just recently modified.

[sivle]

can someone shed some light on this:

gravity = link_votes/$days

and then

if(!isset($_REQUEST['search'])){$search->orderBy = "gravity DESC";}


Using this or similar formula to allow stories to re-surface as they receive more votes? Shouldn't be that difficult to implement, i'm just not sure what variables to use or where to incorporate the code? Anyone?

[jacksparrow]

Is it possible to modify Linkas's code to eliminate 'bury' clicks...

Thanks.

[ganzir]

Originally Posted by jacksparrow

Is it possible to modify Linkas's code to eliminate 'bury' clicks...

Thanks.

Bump.

I haven't mastered SQL yet, but I'm learning a bit.

I know we can find out the number of days since a story was published with something similar to "select datediff(day,link_published_date,today)"

Does anyone know how to realize this in PHP code so that we can sort by votes/days since submission?

[keg01]

There was a similar request over here I stumbled on this week:

http://forums.pligg.com/general-help...ber-votes.html

I suggested a custom filter that could be an example to follow to accomplish what you're after in this thread, I think.

This example was for gen3ric's desire to only have items that have been published in the last 4 hours displayed on the index (published) sorted descending by votes. Not exactly what you're asking but I think the outline of the steps will help you get there with your own understanding of sql.

[dollars5]

Gravity mode is something totally different and works the same way as reddit ordering the stories by rate of activity and you can see it live at Buzzdup / Published (previously linka.co.nz) or at Kwoff / FRONT PAGE try voting on stories you will know how it works. This mod is available under a commercial license - if you want an exclusive demo or purchase contact sales [at] dollars5 [dot] com

We also have it implemented on few more sites - but we cannot disclose here due to NDA. A total of 8 sites are using this gravity mode now.