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[Graham Binns <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2010/1/14 Tom Berger <tom.berger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> We may very likely factor in status/importance
>
> I think that the current algorithm looks very good, and can definitely
> be improved later on by bringing in other metadata. However, I'm
> pretty sure that we should never bring importance in, since one of the
> use cases we anticipate is for people to use hotness as a way to
> decide how to set importance. If that's really the case then making
> importance part of the calculation will be meaningless, and will
> create a feedback loop that might make the output less reliable.
>

I thoroughly agree.

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