Au contraire, Monsieur!Jes wrote:I think we shouldn't give that importance to the number of days. As a 100km hit in 10 days is more interesting than a 10km 100 days. (IMO!!) What do you think?
A long-distance hit can be relatively easy obtained, by someone bringing home notes from a foreign destination, e.g. from holidays.
A long-duration hit cannot be forced in any way; you just have to wait until it happens -- or not.
In my opinion: Yes.Similarly, I think we should give less importance to the users themselves. What if a user has a hit when travelling with a person whith whom (s)he has previously had a hit? is the hit for that reason less interesting than if it would have occurred with a different user.
Objection! No hit shall ever be "punished"; the more linearly the scale is, the better.The good thing of this formula is that it will give us a more close range of values, although I think that what we actually need is a formula which considerabely punish the non interesting hits and "rises up" the super-interesting hits.
No problem at all - the server does know all the correct numbers. The stats that are shown at the users' pages are just filtered from the "real stuff".Another reason why I do not like the "n" is that: if both users do not want to share the "hit partners" statistics... you are betrayed. I suppouse that info is stored somewhere, but the "interestingness factor" wouldn't be fully transparent.
Absolutely! I was about to mention this factor just yet, but you must have read my mind!BTW: this example gave me a hint... Should we consider the denomination of a note for this interestingness stuff?
I think a hit with aor
or
or
are more or less within the same interestingness sphere. but
and
and specially
are more interesting... as these notes are rather unfrequent. (At least for me)

Best example is a hit I had tonight, that I'm rather proud of, because you will not get a




Why not? That's one of the main reasons I'd favor a one-shot solution, i.e. calculate the interestingness of a hit as it happens and not on-the-fly:However, this lead us into a very complicated formula, not only because we should introduce a new factor in there, but also because... Why not consider then if the note is a R/X or something more strange M/M or whatever...
It does not hurt the performance of the server too much compared to re-iterating the formula again and again.
Rgds, Franz