# Criteria in Top Topics

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/criteria-in-top-topics/152376
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 22, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/criteria-in-top-topics/152376 "2020-05-22T20:01:00Z")
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### Author: ![jenni\_alencar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jenni_alencar/32/169068_2.png) [@jenni\_alencar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jenni_alencar)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/criteria-in-top-topics/152376/1 "2020-05-22T20:01:00Z")

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What is the criteria for the order?

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/c/2c942ef9c71a0ed11ab30ef287d62dc212971762.png)

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/criteria-in-top-topics/152376/2 "2020-05-22T20:14:48Z")

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The same question has been asked and answered here:

> [@How is the "top" order determined](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-is-the-top-order-determined/57890/2):
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> As you can see Discourse calculating topic score for all the periods using the counting of posts, views, topic likes and post likes. And topics will be displayed in descending order of the `PERIOD_score` .

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/criteria-in-top-topics/152376/3 "2020-06-21T20:17:53Z")

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