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How to sort a list of communities by engagement? (programming.dev)
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I have a list of communities, each with total votes, upvote percentage, and the community name. I want to sort the list by 'engagement,' which would be some combination of total votes and upvote percentage. What is the best way to do this? What would be the best measure of 'engagement' with each community given this data?

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[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 4 months ago

On the sorting logic, not the code itself, maybe calculate differently for each range of total votes?

For example, let's say there are 5 communities with up to 100 total votes, 5 with 1000 and 5 with 10000. You could, for the first, divide the percentage by some constant like let's say 10, the middle one you'd do nothing, and the third one you'd multiply the percentage by the same constant as the first. The resulting number (no longer a percentage) could indicate the engagement.

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