Formulas

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Modify formulas currently only supports formulas for burying stories, not publishing. It lets you configure time since post, votes and bury variables. So for example you can enter:
Code:

$reports > $votes * 3
Which means if the number of reports (bury) is greater than the number of votes * 3 it will bury a story.
In this example if reports= 10 and votes= 4 it would plug in like:
10 > 4*3
And because 10 isn't greater than 12 the story would not be removed. Three more reports and then it will be automatically removed.

A more advanced usage that includes time since submission would be:
Code:

$reports > ($votes * 2)+($hours_since_submit)
The number of reportsis greater than (the number of votes * 2) + (how many hours its been since the story was submitted)
In this example if reports=10 , votes=4 and hours = 2 it would plug in like:
10 > (4*2)+2
Since 10 is not greater than 10, the story will not be removed. 11 bury reports or higher would remove it in this case.

Pligg Formulas is a module designed to allow a site admin to configure how Pligg should calculate when to bury a story. To access the Modify Formulas Admin Panel you must first install it from the Module Management page in the Pligg Admin Panel. After you install it, a link to Modify Formulas will appear on the main admin page.

The Pligg Formula module currently supports 3 variables. The first is $votes, for how many votes an article has. The second is $reports for how many times users have clicked on bury. The third is $hours_since_submit, which is the number of hours that have passed since the story has been submitted rounded down an hour. Using a mixture of these three variables and common math expressions you can create formulas for calculating when a story should be buried.