# What determines the order of frequent poster icons in the topic list?

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**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [2016年五月23日 13:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-determines-the-order-of-frequent-poster-icons-in-the-topic-list/44669 "2016-05-23T13:20:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Post date:** [2016年五月23日 20:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-determines-the-order-of-frequent-poster-icons-in-the-topic-list/44669/2 "2016-05-23T20:43:33Z")

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I looked a bit for the “featured” ranking algorithm but gave up looking for now.

Using [Topic Ratings Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-ratings-plugin/39578) as an example

The avatars are

angus - Original Poster, Most Recent Poster (28)  
fackelwind - Frequent Poster (10)  
zogstrip - Frequent Poster (2) [2/ 1]  
envieme - Frequent Poster (4) [1]  
repz - Frequent Poster (next to last)

So it looks like the number of posts in the thread is important, as are the “last” posts.  
i.e. a combination of both post count and post sequence.

The odd man out here is zogstrip who has only 2 posts in the topic yet is before envieme who has 4 posts in the topic.

Reason? My guess would be that Staff or maybe Trust Level are weighted more.

I suspected the number of Likes might be a factor, but if it is it doesn’t look to be in this case.

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