#14 · 8:10am Jan 29th, 2019
And here's another question showing I have no idea how this place works, but what on earth decides what stories go in the fancy-pants box on the front page? Does everything get a go in there or what?
I'm like a cat in the driver's seat - no real clue what to do and even less grasp of what my real situation even is.
I always assumed the box was what ever Xaquseg had set the flavor of the month to be on the back end.
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I was just curious what arcane technosorcery decided its contents. Cos like my shit ends up there and I don't get it.
Featured box? A combination of views, likes and favourites combined with an unknown algorithm dictates the top seven spots.
The bottom three slots are reserved for updated popular stories that also get views and likes with a lower threshold, so it changes constantly. I've updated a fic or two that were previously featured that got back into the box.
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"Unknown algorithm" sounds deliciously vague. I think it's the rogue process.
But still, that clears it up a little, thanks.
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If I had to make a silly guess and throw around fancy 100 quid words I would wager the terms "Binomial proportion confidence interval" (i.e. the "Wilson Score" in the search filter) and "exponential time decay" would factor somewhere in it.