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Re: Deflation and "Selected Best Nodes"

by Limbic~Region (Chancellor)
on Jan 08, 2014 at 13:18 UTC ( [id://1069792]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Deflation and "Selected Best Nodes"

LanX,
For nearly a decade, I was in a torrid love affair with Perl and the Monastery but have not been active for the past couple of years. Here is what I think is going on:

A new node has a relatively small window of time (newest nodes - recently active threads) to amass the majority of its votes. If it does not reach a certain threshold, it is lost to the archives forever. That threshold continually increases because older nodes that were above that threshold and are still visible through Selected Best Nodes slowly accrue new upvotes dragging the "norm" up. Here is why I think this is what's going on:

When Selected Best Nodes was first introduced, the 50th randomly selected node had a reputation somewhere near the low 70's. Over time, I watched that number climb. This morning I saw that it is nearly 100. While I believe many extremely experienced monks have moved on from PerlMonks - there are still many quality nodes written that would likely have been in the best nodes if they had been written years ago.

For what it's worth, my memory of history is that Selected Best Nodes was created to fix this exact behavior because prior to that only the very top nodes could be seen.

Cheers - L~R

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Re^2: Deflation and "Selected Best Nodes"
by LanX (Saint) on Jan 08, 2014 at 16:01 UTC
    Hi Limbic~Region,

    this effect surely exists, I myself remember that a younger (XP-whoring) me blindly up-voted such nodes one or two times. (I was a young monk and hungry for reputation ;)

    But like proven by eyepopslikeamosquito there is certainly a vote-deflation effect involved.

    Selecting nodes from all years best should improve the situation, at least to a point where age doesn't matter.

    For completeness (this over-extends the topic):

    Other possible selection criteria for other compilations could be :

    • the number of links into a thread ( compare google ranking) or
    • tags used (unfortunately is the tag-nodelet mostly ignored).

    Cheers Rolf

    ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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