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Deeper branches bubbling up to higher one.

Posted by Hypersapien
Tags: branches, bubbling

As things get going and we start getting more specific branches coming off of the main groups, posts are supposed to bubble up the branches as they get enough votes. So that a post in ~games.boardgames wouldn't initially be visible to someone who is only subscribed to ~games, but would become visible if it gets popular enough.

There is a danger of branches becoming so popular that they overwhelm the main group.

I'm thinking that it might be a good idea to "weight" the branches inversely to the number of subscribers it has. Meaning that a post in branch with 10,000 subscribers would require more votes to bubble up than a post in a branch with 1000 subscribers.

Thoughts?

6 comments

  1. Whom
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    It's been heavily suggested elsewhere that there will be a weighting system, but my impression that it'll be more of a case-by-case thing rather than an automated, formulaic thing.

    It's been heavily suggested elsewhere that there will be a weighting system, but my impression that it'll be more of a case-by-case thing rather than an automated, formulaic thing.

    2 votes
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    ourari
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    Sounds good. If a branch is big/thick(?) enough, could or should it spin off into a tree or main branch or whatever in its own right? Going from ~games.boardgames to ~games and ~boardgames?

    Sounds good.

    If a branch is big/thick(?) enough, could or should it spin off into a tree or main branch or whatever in its own right? Going from ~games.boardgames to ~games and ~boardgames?

    2 votes
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      onyxleopard
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      I don’t think so. If that were the case, there’d be no reason to have a hierarchical structure at all—just have a flat set of groups by default. The whole point of the hierarchy is that you can...

      I don’t think so. If that were the case, there’d be no reason to have a hierarchical structure at all—just have a flat set of groups by default. The whole point of the hierarchy is that you can explore it in a logical way. I.e., you can discover ~games.boardgames from ~games. And you can discover ~games.boardgames.sorry. It also has the benefit of providing disambiguation in terms of namespaces. It’s not a good example, but if somehow ~games.boardgames.sorry became the most popular group, then having a top-level ~sorry would be a bit odd because ~sorry is ambiguous and does not obviously refer to the board game.

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      1. ourari
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        Good point.

        It’s not a good example, but if somehow ~games.boardgames.sorry became the most popular group, then having a top-level ~sorry would be a bit odd because ~sorry is ambiguous and does not obviously refer to the board game.

        Good point.

    2. Hypersapien
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      Maybe, but I'm thinking it should be based on percentage of active users.

      Maybe, but I'm thinking it should be based on percentage of active users.

      1 vote
  3. teaearlgraycold
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    I would imagine that the algorithm will be the same as the one used by reddit for determining what shows up on your front page. You might be subscribed to a subreddit where the average post only...

    I would imagine that the algorithm will be the same as the one used by reddit for determining what shows up on your front page. You might be subscribed to a subreddit where the average post only gets 5 upvotes alongside /r/askreddit. But the AskReddit posts don't drown out the posts from the smaller subreddit.

    2 votes