I've reset that specific file to 200 downloads to help this specific
issue. If you find others that are problematic like this, please open a
bug report on lmms.io tracker and we'll fix them.
We shouldn't abuse this though as it can quickly get unfair to artists. :+1:
- [email protected]
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Tres Finocchiaro <
[email protected]> wrote:
> > This algorythm can be very simple: download quantity, rating, etc. Just
> having the period filter would help a lot.
>
> Well, it sort of does, Toby wrote it as a "downloads_per_day" calculation
> <https://github.com/LMMS/lmms.io/blob/master/public/lsp/dbo.php#L623>, so
> the popularity does eventually drop off. This one just
> has artificially high results.
>
> If someone wants to write the code to make this value editable
> <https://github.com/LMMS/lmms.io/blob/master/public/lsp/edit_file.php> by
> administrators to bandaid this until a proper rewrite is done, please do.
>
> The code is very plainly just inserts and updates based on classic
> GET/POST values. It looks a bit modern due to being wrapped in a modern
> theme, but it is about 95% original as it was from the old site, which is
> mostly just classic database calls and echo statements.
>
> -Tres
>
> - [email protected]
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Amadeus Folego <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> This is a really interesting phenomenon.
>>
>> People already assume that the most popular (in terms of downloads)
>> tracks are some of the best. That's why there usually is some kind of
>> automated or manual curation on this kind of platform.
>>
>> I can say that the first thing that I did when I knew about LSP was to
>> download the most downloaded tracks, and I was pretty disappointed by
>> the result.
>>
>> This is an issue if you think about it: some of the best tracks I found
>> on LSP are mostly 2 weeks old. Then these tracks are buried beneath the
>> ever increasing rate of tracks submits, never gaining traction to be the
>> next "most rated/downloaded track".
>>
>> Since there are something like 4-10 (my feeling, I check LSP 3-5 times a
>> week) new tracks added every day we could have a webpage that implements a
>> curation mechanism to present the "best" tracks for the last 30 days.
>>
>> This algorythm can be very simple: download quantity, rating, etc. Just
>> having the period filter would help a lot.
>>
>
>
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