Comments on post “Uberhunters”
Johannes N
@jollife · Dev Lead, Swat.io
hi @rrhoover. thx for your kind words! We've seen HunterData in the past and wanted to create an even better ranking.
How? Well, we incorporate two basic principles in the rating:
1. a user who votes early should always get a higher score as all subsequent voters
2. a user who votes on every single product should be slowed down by the algorithm. so we defined that votes for unpopular hunts decrease your rank.
another important feature for us is the ability to compare two ore more hunters against each other (see: https://uberhunters.com/all/rrho...). We loved to implement this feature, as @neuling2k and I tend to battle against each others all the time! :)
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Chris Messina
@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
@rrhoover @jollife I'm not sure how much I like that votes on unpopular hunts hurt your ranking. Or maybe I use PH differently, but just because something is popular doesn't mean that it's good. I'm curious — if I went back and voted for all the top 3 most hunted items every day, would my score go up?
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Derek Shanahan
@dshan · GM @ SuperRewards
@rrhoover @jollife @chrismessina I'd argue increasingly that popularity is a bad indicator of 'good', in fact.
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Chris Messina
@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
@rrhoover @jollife @dshan this is basically what @golocalapps is saying below. It's really hard to judge a product by name and tagline alone, and yet I'm guessing many people do. There are several different *types* of PH hunters that are useful: the original posters, the upvoters, and the commentators. There are some overlap between them, but it'd be interesting to see who are the most influential in those categories, rather than a universal metric based on who votes with the majority.
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Johannes N
@jollife · Dev Lead, Swat.io
@rrhoover @chrismessina hi chris, that depends on the timing of your vote. if you vote for the top 3, when they all have little to no votes, than it would be great for your score. if you vote on the end of the day, where your vote is one of the last, than your score will not profit that much.
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Chris Messina
@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
@rrhoover @jollife ah, so age of vote relative to posting time is actually considered?
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