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To: SI Dave who wrote (287959)5/22/2004 2:48:02 PM
From: Michael Watkins  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
Score is calculated from a trend analysis

Dave, you should have got an extra jab in there - something like "I'm not surprised at the lack of understanding - it is obvious that few people on SI know how to do trend analysis"

;-)

Dave gets to win one, once in a while, too!



To: SI Dave who wrote (287959)5/22/2004 3:22:07 PM
From: Terry Maloney  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 436258
 
Oops .. <g>

So it merely reflects a thread's waxing or waning in activity? If there's no weighting for the number of posts/bookmarks, it does seem like it would be easy to maniplulate ... start a thread and make one post a day for seven days, then on day 8 make 11 posts and you'll rocket to the top with a score of 1000% ...