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That's not really appropriate for what this blog post was talking about, which is rating products. It doesn't make sense for products' ratings to be time sensi
by araneae 17y ago
That's not really appropriate for what this blog post was talking about, which is rating products. It doesn't make sense for products' ratings to be time sensitive. That would make the most recent items have an artificially inflated score.
- ck2 17y agoBut you want to control the weight of a rank for an aging product, no? Let's say you are ranking cellphones that a store sells and someone has a fond memory of a cellphone they used a few years ago so they vote it up. But the phone itself was posted years ago, compared to the newest phones that came out this year. You don't want their vote to have as much weight because of the product age.
- araneae 17y agoYou could make an argument for using that for, say, deciding on which products should be featured on a page that's promoting products to consumers. But for actual product "scores" that people see that's a very bad idea. A book shouldn't have a 4/5 if everyone rated it a 5/5 just because it came out 50 years ago.