stevemagruderIt would be nice if as a plugin setting, I could set a time-decay value for the various components (or all of them together) which make up the popularity.
In other words, a comment to a post a year ago wouldn't have a much lesser weight than a comment to the same post a week ago.
A decay value would be something like "0.nn" where the user would enter a two digit number in place of the nn. Let's say I entered 0.99 as an example. The same day of a comment to a post, it would have its full weight, or 1.00. But the next day it would have a weight of 0.99, then the next day, 0.9801 (0.99 x 0.99), then 0.9703 (0.99 x 0.99 x 0.99), and so on. If the weight is changed later, then the component's weight could be recalculated.
Thanks,
Steve
