Score. Score for a Post. How is this calculated?

ivanrlio · February 28, 2016, 5:45pm

Just curious what the ‘Score’ attribute on a user post indicates, and/or how it’s calculated. Thanks!

codinghorror · February 28, 2016, 8:44pm

Used in the summarize topic function which appears on topics with more than 50 replies.

zogstrip · February 29, 2016, 11:42am

As for how it’s calculated, everything is in the ScoreCalculator class

github.com/discourse/discourse

lib/score_calculator.rb

main

# frozen_string_literal: true

class ScoreCalculator
  def self.default_score_weights
    { reply_count: 5, like_score: 15, incoming_link_count: 5, bookmark_count: 2, reads: 0.2 }
  end

  def initialize(weightings = nil)
    @weightings = weightings || ScoreCalculator.default_score_weights
  end

  # Calculate the score for all posts based on the weightings
  def calculate(opts = nil)
    update_posts_score(opts)
    update_posts_rank(opts)
    update_topics_rank(opts)
  end

  private

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ivanrlio · February 29, 2016, 5:04pm

Great thanks for this!

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