# What makes a topic appear in the "Top" filter?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-makes-a-topic-appear-in-the-top-filter/49668>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [September 3, 2016, 9:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-makes-a-topic-appear-in-the-top-filter/49668 "2016-09-03T09:32:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pad\_Pors](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pad_pors/32/52016_2.png) [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-makes-a-topic-appear-in-the-top-filter/49668/2 "2016-09-03T14:34:28Z")

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this is the file:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/models/top_topic.rb#L143-L192>

there were topics about top-page algorithm, but i couldn’t re-find them using the search.

> [@keith1](#):
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> My initial instinct tells me that if there are no other topics being called “top” any of my latest should automatically get that description

i don’t think that’s how it works, since not all the latest topics are shown in the top page. there exist some score and the topic should get the minimal score to be shown in the top page.

and you can change the top-scoring parameters in the admin setting panel, in the developer tab.

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