Following discussions with SK, I'm looking for your opinions on the "top 20 guys/gals" sections.   These pages are supposed to show those with a high "karma" on the site, created from profile views, winks, last visit time, etc.   What do you think the maths should be in calculating this "top 20"?  Do you think we should have it at all?  I created it as a bit of a space filler when the site didn't have much content.   The maths I think would work well is... ("no. winks" X "no. profile views in past fortnight") '/. number of days ago user last visited the site.Then the whole "karma" score multiplied by 2 if your a subscribed user.   This would give a fair bias towards subscribed users, and would remove users who haven't viewed the site in months.   The more complicated the script, the more strain it will put onto the server and the longer the pages will take to load..   Cheers                                                                                                                                                                             

FFS! I just posted in 'subscriptions' about this lol   IMHO I say it should be a show case not a Top 20 list, show case ALL FULL members in rotation, I hate fuggin maths and aint got a clue what your equation means Matt     I'll STFU now >>>>heads for the door>>>>   Kwak                                                                                                                                                                              

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ill second that bb lol                                                                                                                                                                              

well say your profile has 100 views in the past 2 weeks, and you've received 15 winks in total, and you last visited today or yesterday, and you're a subscribed user.  Then, your "karma" as other sites call it would be... 100 x 15 = 1500     <<<Views x Winks '/, 1 = 1500           <<<Divided by only 1 coz u accessed today x 2 = 3000            <<< times 2 as your subscribed.   Now, if you were the same person but you wasn't subscribed, then you would remove the last line (x2) and you would have half the Karma (1500).   If you hadn't been to the site for a week, then it would look like this....   100 x 15 = 1500     <<<Views x Winks '/, 7 = 214.29        <<<Divided by 7 coz u accessed 7 days ago x 2 = 428.57           <<< times 2 as your subscribed.   See where this is going?   It's not currently so complex, as its a powerful calculation which has to be run on 5,000 members before the "top 20" karma rated people can be calculated.                                                                                                                                                                             

could also include forum post count and winks sent to push people to be more "active".   It really is supposed to be about who's active and doing stuff online.                                                                                                                                                                             

well looks i need to get out more  then                                                                                                                                                                               

Its ok having the top 20 gals & guys on there but what about the other members cant you have top 100 lol instead of 20!!                                                                                                                                                                             

All that calculation FFS it's a social site not Mensa lol   Quote Matt: It really is supposed to be about who's active and doing stuff online.   'Supposed' being the operative word, I spend a lot of time on here and hardly ever saw my profile featured so maybe I didn't fit into the Mensa calculations, tho I did find it odd that standard members/newbies, who hadn't visited the site in almost a week, were featured.   Forum post count?? Make ya mind up, ya were complaining that folk posted too much crud, if ya include the post count, as a factor to getting your mug shot featured more, you're goin to have more crud posts, aint ya?   Winks? No fuggin comment!                                                                                                                                                                              

good point on the forum posts etc.   Its a very complicated subject, and the maths are even worse!!!  Whatever the "calculation" will be has to be run on 5,000+ members and then the top X pulled from the list.  It puts a lot of strain on the server and causes slow page load times.   Its a simple one at the moment, which clearly isnt fit for purpose and i wont deny it.