public feed order

Ranking

The public index can remain chronological or use a deterministic ranked order. These sliders are the actual coefficients, half-lives, caps, and grace-period values used by your feed.

Author reputation, administrator status, and editor authority contribute exactly zero.

Feed order

Latest orders posts by publication time. Ranked calculates the formula below using your saved values.

Active order ranked latest

Ranking coefficients Post reputation coefficient Coefficient applied to the post's own dimension-weighted reputation score. 40 Post recency coefficient Coefficient applied to the post-age decay term. 20 Decayed comment coefficient Coefficient applied to recent comments after per-user caps and time decay. 15 Unique-commenter coefficient Coefficient applied to the capped number of recent independent commenters. 15 Rating-confidence coefficient Coefficient applied to the number of distinct post raters, up to saturation. 10

Time decay Post recency half-life Hours required for the post recency term to halve. 72 hours Comment lookback window Only comments inside this many days contribute to ranked order. 7 days Comment recency half-life Hours required for an individual comment contribution to halve. 48 hours

Rating confidence Rating-confidence saturation Distinct raters required for the confidence term to reach 1.0. 20 raters

Discussion controls Unique-commenter cap Maximum recent commenters counted by the unique-commenter term. 10 users Comments per user cap Maximum recent comments from one user counted for one post. 2 comments Author-comment multiplier Percentage multiplier applied to the post author's own comments. 25 %

New-post exposure Unrated-post grace period Hours during which an unrated post can receive the bounded new-post bonus. 24 hours Unrated-post maximum bonus Maximum additive bonus at publication time; it decays linearly to zero over the grace period. 15 %

These values are stored in this browser session. Log in to retain them across devices.

Exact calculation

rank = Σ(normalized coefficient × component) + unrated-post bonus

The five ranking coefficients are normalized by their sum. Their entered values therefore express their exact relative influence; they do not need to total 100.

post recency = 2 ^ (-post age hours / post half-life hours)
comment recency = 2 ^ (-comment age hours / comment half-life hours)
rating confidence = min(1, distinct post raters / confidence saturation)

Post reputation is the post's own active, positive-coefficient reputation dimensions normalized to 0–1. It is not the author's accumulated reputation.

Recent comments are capped per user, limited to the configured lookback window, and decayed individually. The author's own comments use the configured author-comment multiplier.

The unrated-post bonus is additive, bounded by its maximum percentage, and falls linearly to zero over the configured grace period.

Explicit exclusions

author reputation coefficient: 0
admin coefficient: 0
editor coefficient: 0