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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (147)	11/23/2002 3:10:58 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) of 170

Actually, what I've observed boils down to a sharp increase in posts after a period of stagnation puts a thread on the Hot List. A new thread that picks 'a lot' of posts (' a lot' being dozens) in one day makes it. Prior to its existence, it had a zero posting rate. An old thread with 60,000 posts that had dropped to an an average of 1 or 2 or 3 a day for several months and then suddenly hits 40 a day also makes it. And a very active thread like GWB has difficulty making it because it takes a thousand extra posts to give it any significant percentage increase over its normal heavy posting rate. And there's a delay of a day or two in calculation. So sometimes a totally dead thread that picks up 4 posts in a day, then dies again, makes the hot list 2 days later when it is once again totally dead. Which appears weird, since it shows up on a day when it has no posts and had none the previous day. NOTE: Lately there seems to be only a 1-day delay in calculation, so the effect of a change in posting rate shows up the next day. Some months back, 2-day delays were common. And I'm pretty sure Jorj bribes Jeff. He ALWAYS makes the list. And then whines about it to cover. :-)

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