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Weighted Sorting

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2022 3:39 pm
by Skavau
This is a really personal thing, but just for my curiosity really. Currently you can filter searches on here by popularity, rating, title and year. Could you add in a formula to have your program organise it by weighted rating - ie a combination of the rating score + rating amount?

Because currently if you sort by rating you get stuff with like 95 scores being listed at the top... with about 25 people rating it.

Re: Weighted Sorting

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2022 11:07 pm
by (cool) Hector
I currently don't plan to do that. I have a ton of other improvements that I consider more prioritary.

Re: Weighted Sorting

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2022 11:36 pm
by Skavau
Oh yeah, this is kinda small. It's not a priority at all in my mind - but it'd be nice (at least for me) because IMDB itself doesn't even do weighted rating organisation, which is kinda bad imo.

Re: Weighted Sorting

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 1:52 am
by (cool) Hector
Instead of doing some weighing, I plan to add an IMDb rating filter and an IMDb popularity filter where you can set a minimum or a maximum. Combined with the ordering, we'll be able to achieve what you want. The search will be a little complicated to set, but with the upcoming saved searches it'll be easier (saved searches will record the filters as well as the order).

Re: Weighted Sorting

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 8:31 pm
by Skavau
A minimum rating and popularity threshold is cool too. Possibly a maximum too (would make sense if you want to isolate in favour of obscure content)?

Re: Weighted Sorting

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 8:46 pm
by (cool) Hector
Skavau wrote:A minimum rating and popularity threshold is cool too. Possibly a maximum too

That's what I said, minimum and maximum too.