It's great that you are trying to optimise this feature.
Since anyone could make alt accounts to give an initial boost to the post, these are my suggestions:
give more weight to the reactions from older accounts (e.g. older than month)
give more weight to the reactions from accounts which are more active (those who write posts should probably be the heaviest, then the ones who only comment posts, and finally, the ones who have no activity besides giving reactions)
if you collect how many posts has someone read (opened), those stats might also be included in the weighing algorithm (i.e. pretty much anything can be used for algorithm, sky is the limit)
Also, IMO, algorithm doesn't need to be publicly known, so it would be less abused. It's important that it works good and feedback is collected from users.
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These are some great ideas, and one goal I have is to allow Forem creators to configure the feed "levers" to better match their community use case. And these "properties" that you're referencing may well be worth adding to the "levers" we make available.
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It's great that you are trying to optimise this feature.
Since anyone could make alt accounts to give an initial boost to the post, these are my suggestions:
Also, IMO, algorithm doesn't need to be publicly known, so it would be less abused. It's important that it works good and feedback is collected from users.
These are some great ideas, and one goal I have is to allow Forem creators to configure the feed "levers" to better match their community use case. And these "properties" that you're referencing may well be worth adding to the "levers" we make available.