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Registered Member #95
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:57PM
Location: Norway
Posts: 1308
The site ranking system has intrigued me since the start of this incarnation of the forum, since it makes no apparent sense. At first I thought it followed the amount of posts each user has, but I see now that that is not the case. Is it the actual ranking a user has on the site which determines their "rank", as in moderators have a secret karma button for posts they like? Or is it visits to the site? Post per visit? Posts per visit / peak of the derivative of their learning curve ^ visits to the chat room? It's not that important, and if its a secret I'll let it go, but I just had to ask.
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Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 02:22PM
Location: New Wilmington, PA
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We did some digging. As far as we knew it was based strictly on the number of posts, but its actually quite a convoluted weighted formula taking into account things like the number of visits, number of posts, how long you've been a member, etc.
... not Russel! Registered Member #1
Joined: Thu Jan 26 2006, 12:18AM
Location: Tempe, Arizona
Posts: 1052
Oddly enough, I had always assumed that the ranking was based solely on the number of posts that a user had. The top ten list conforms nicely. However, now that I'm actually looking for it, I can see that's not the case at all.
I went digging through e107's source code, and found the formula used to generate the "points" that each level uses. The formula is as follows:
[(number of posts * 5) + (number of comments * 5) + (number of visits to the site)]/ 4
Thus, it is based not only on the number of posts and comments you've made, but how often you visit the site as well. Forum posts are weighted five times heavier than visits, so it follows the general trend of user's posts, but people who have 4hv set to their home page, or visit very frequently, can easily throw off the curve.
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