Popularity Contest 1.2.1

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1. Andy C adds this Comment:

   Great plugin. Thanks.

   Would be a nice improvement if page accesses from the dashboard could be filtered.

   November 7th, 2006 at 4:59 am

2. Fitri ulina adds this Comment:

   Thanks for your plugin

   November 9th, 2006 at 8:25 pm

3. mofu adds this Comment:

   Thank you for nice plugin!
   This plugin is very useful tool.
   Thanks…

   November 15th, 2006 at 1:08 am

4. Wizbit adds this Comment:

   I really like this plugin.

   Only one problem is that although by blog is less than a year old it still says I’ve got popular posts from a year ago.

   I can live with that though!!

   November 16th, 2006 at 11:22 am

5. Andrew Ferrier adds this Comment:

   Alex, your pop-contest plugin is great, and I use it quite extensively. Here’s a small suggestion for increasing it’s accuracy - divide each post’s popularity score by the number of days since it was posted. I tend to find that older articles on my site stick at the top of the ratings, which is a little misleading as they’ve had more time to build up popularity. Weighting scores towards more recent articles could offset this.

   Thanks for your hard work,
   Andrew.

   November 23rd, 2006 at 10:02 am

6. Alex adds this Comment:

   Hmm, interesting idea - but this would bias the scores towards recent posts, particularly hurting posts prior to the enabling of the PC plugin.

   The more I think about it, the more I think this would hurt accuracy rather than help it. An older post with lots of view is more popular than a newer post with fewer views.

   November 23rd, 2006 at 12:01 pm

7. Andrew Ferrier adds this Comment:

   OK. I don’t think it’s essential. It could be customisable - a weighting factor between the current method and the one I describe. Essentially I’m just wondering about the post 10 days old that’s got loads of views, but not quite as many as the one a year old - arguably the first is more ‘popular’.

   I could see that this might make the plugin more complicated than would be desirable though.

   December 7th, 2006 at 11:21 am

8. Alex adds this Comment:

   It would also make the weighting algorithm a lot heavier (more resource intensive). There’s probably a good solution out there somewhere though. For now, you might want to look at the “last 30 days”, etc. reports.

   December 7th, 2006 at 11:26 am

9. cfg adds this Comment:

   Hi

   This is a great plugin.
   Is it possible to display posts regarding to their popularity instead of by date on front page (not sidebar) ?

   Thanks for this great work

   April 20th, 2007 at 11:10 pm

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15. Daniel Braun adds this Comment:

    Great plugin! Is it possible to show the most popular post in the last x days in instead of just in the current month?

    December 7th, 2007 at 5:16 am

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