Re^4: Sorting "SuperSearch" results by votes?

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Moin Almut 8 )

But I'm pretty confident that sorting by reputation can be "more useful" than sorting by time.

I wouldn't be so confident :) Actually, I think using other means to narrow down the search (additional keywords, etc.) such that sorting of the remaining hits becomes more or less irrelevant, is the better strategy

It's just ranking, you equally have the possibility to narrow down by keywords with either sorting method.

Honestly, if your interested about the feedback of a CPAN Modul X::Y and you get 100 hits, wouldn't you preferre to start reading the 10 posts with rep>20 before getting to rep=0 ???

Of course there are much better and sophisticated ranking methods possible with the metadata we have¹ ... but sorting by rep is much simpler to implement just by extending an SQL-Query. It's easier to get the break even of investment and payback.

Cheers Rolf

(¹) like weighting the votes by XP of the voter, or by "voters who voted like you".

UPDATE: Or weighting by voters who regularly vote for "too-late-posts" (posts which slipped out of focus of average voters).

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Re^5: Sorting "SuperSearch" results by votes? (implementation) by tye (Sage) on Jun 05, 2009 at 13:53 UTC
but sorting by rep is much simpler to implement just by extending an SQL-Query Um, if you sorted on rep using SQL with Super Search, you'd turn something specificly designed to prevent undue load into something performantly exceedingly awful. And adding an index on reputation would rather suck also, since reputation is the one thing about a node that changes an order of magnitude more often than anything else about the node. - tye	[reply]
Re^6: Sorting "SuperSearch" results by votes? (implementation) by LanX (Saint) on Jun 05, 2009 at 19:10 UTC
OK, no simple SQL-Query, but surely you could cache the normal (max 100?) results of one search-run and sort them within perl??? Anyway if it's too complicated to realize, never mind ... Cheers Rolf	[reply]

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