Misconfigured Trending Content?

eternal_noob

eternal_noob

After the forum upgrade, there is a new box that shows "Trending content".

I believe there is something misconfigured as it shows ancient threads with few replies.

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Given the information on https://xenforo.com/community/threads/trending-content.220649/ I have to assume that this widget is operating on a very small body of data (i.e. data generated since the new forum started up), which means something as simple as a popular google search leading to an old topic may propel that topic to 'trending'. Statistical outlier for now. We will have to give this thing a bigger body of data. Keep reading, posting and liking, and I'm sure this will 'even out'.
 
Killed the Views metric (set to 0 points per view instead of 1) and the Trending Content disappeared. I'm sure it reappears when other metrics (like replies, reactions) start to amass.

Edit: oh, it's back, must have been a recalibration thing going on.
 
Might as well ask here, what do you consider a good weighting system? Forget the Vote lines, we hardly ever do surveys here, but as you can see, replies count the hardest, views have been disabled (too much influence from old topics ranking high in search engines - but no metric for engagement or interest). Kind of stumped by 'reaction score'; assuming 'reaction count' is based on the number of Likes and Thanks.

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Oh wait, got it, a Like is +1, a Thanks is +1. That's how it was set up loooong ago. So 1 Like => Score +1 => +20 points. Ditto for Thanks.
 
Is the time of likes, views, replies etc. stored? I'd think in a trend (a general direction of change) you'd want to give more weight to more recent reactions than older ones. Just like in load averages!
 
It's only based on recent activity, and it has a half-life. Below are the installed defaults, it could easily be 14/7, 10/5, or 7/3.

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Mild opinion: I think thanks should count for more than like, as generally the thanks reaction implies a post imparts something useful to someone.
 
Funnily enough, I came to the opposite conclusion, where a Like is a stronger 'emotion' than a simple 'Thanks'.
 
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