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LanX
Hello Brothers<P><P>
when bored I start reading and enjoying the wisdom of <i>"[id://328478] of All Time, 50 of the top 2000 nodes"!</i> <P><P>
I don't know if I'm the only one noticing¹ but <u>it's pretty difficult to find nodes written after 2006!</u><P><P>
As I'm looking at it now the last node N° 50 is "[id://456454]" with 99 upvotes, which pretty much explains the phenomenon.<P><P>
It's the <b>[wp://deflation]</b> (the opposite of inflation) of votes in the last years. IAW votes were "cheaper" back then.<P><P>
The best node of 2013 apparently was "[id://1049026]" with 87 votes.<P><P>
I certainly doubt that the loss of monks or votes in the last years represents a decline of quality.<P><P>
My suggestion (IFF easily realized!) is to select the nodes after multiplying a antiproportional weight factor which is derived from either average votes or maximum votes in the corresponding year.<P><P>
This is far from being urgent, I just thought it might be worth noting, that ATM "selected best nodes" only represents the far past of the community. <P><P>
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<p>Cheers Rolf
<p> <small>( addicted to the Perl Programming Language) </small>
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PS: another factor could be that old posts had more time collecting votes, I don't have the necessary statistical data to check. Anyway it's still strange if this only applies to nodes written prior to 2006.<P><P>
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¹) older discussions to the same topic:<P><P>
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<LI> [id://925463]
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