# How does "Summarize This Topic" actually work?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-summarize-this-topic-actually-work/212020
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [December 14, 2021, 2:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-summarize-this-topic-actually-work/212020 "2021-12-14T02:30:58Z")
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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2021, 9:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-summarize-this-topic-actually-work/212020/2 "2021-12-14T09:23:47Z")

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It’s done on a scoring system. I think this post has the calculator in:

> [@Score. Score for a Post. How is this calculated?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/score-score-for-a-post-how-is-this-calculated/40295/3):
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> As for how it’s calculated, everything is in the [ScoreCalculator](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/score_calculator.rb) class wink

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