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Lano
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Working from home and feeling couped up.

Blasting music in my ear to try to stay focused and it's working to a degree but I feel really antsy wanna punch things.

Also, how is the "Currently popular post"? decided? It don't make no sense!

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Ooh. A question I can answer. ๐Ÿ˜

The "Currently Popular Post" uses an algorithm to determine which is the most "active" post currently.
A few of the things this needs to account for:
* The Popular post should still stay popular even if a long time goes by.
* It should take into account only recent activity.
* It should NOT mark a post popular when 2 people are talking back and forth (making a lot of replies)

Taking all of this into account, the algorithm is:
Take the 200* most recent replies from age appropriate posts. Group those replies by the user who made them. Count the number of users per post. Mark the currently popular post as the one that has the most users that have recently replied on it.

* 200 is a hand selected number that I chose. If the activity of the site went up, it would make more sense to use a higher number.

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That all makes sense to me but it doesn't always seem to work out that way...though that is only anecdotal evidence with granted is not very reliable.

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When people make posts with really cryptic titles and no explanation of what they're about.

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Holy shucks, like the popular post now is one that no one has posted in in over two weeks, from the previous popular post which is actually quite recent.

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We also accept bribes by bitcoin.

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I always feel so alone here... .8 replies with 7 unique users
โ€œWeโ€™ve all been exposed....... .8 replies with 7 unique users
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These are the posts from the last 200 replies. You can see that even though Help me figure this out has 23 replies, there is only 6 people talking, so the posts with 7 different people talking are higher up on the list.
Right now there is tie, so the most recent is grabbed.

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We've all been exposed is actually more recent and was the most popular post and then suddenly wasn't.

It's not a big deal I was just nitpicking lol.

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I don't think HelpBot expected many ties. ๐Ÿ˜…

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Listening to a podcast at 80 percent speed because it's funny to me.

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