Dedicate a forum to act as "hacker news" daily rating

[mvxlr (Maxim Veksler)]

Hey guys,

I’m wondering if someone has been working or thinking about writing a plugin that allows say a dedicated forum to work as a rating system.

It should be able to do the hacker news / product hunt thing, ie:

1. Reset top rated posted daily
2. Allow people to vote
3. Identify hot topic and push them upper
4. Display comments inside stories.

[cpradio]

You mean this?

Discourse Hot Topics

Repository: https://github.com/danskdynamit/discourse-hot-topics This plugin creates a “Hot” sorting criteria and builds a custom topic list based on the result of the following formula: likes / ((hours since creation + 2) ^ gravity) Things to note: The default gravity multiplier is 1.5 but you can adjust this in the settings for the plugin. You can add “hot” to the list of menu items to make it easier to access. There is also the option to add ?order=hot to a URL to create your own links. O…