I used an "author weight" = 1+1/(num_posts) where only posts with at least one internal link count. So people with fewer posts get bumped up. I'm obviously lowest author weight at 1.0037 and @sarahdoingthing is next lowest at 1.03. People with just 1 post have author rank 2
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I also divided by the age of the post (so a linear reciprocal discounting rather than exponential). A good post should accumulate more backlinks over time, right?
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Interestingly, The Gervais Principle drops to #24 by this ranking :D
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I'm kinda pleased that the top is NOT dominated by me via this reasonable ranking function. I think I need to tweak more, and use an age discount function that also discounts too-young articles maybe
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Hmm... would be nice to add a knob that recovers the raw link-count at an extreme. Maybe an (1+lambda) exponent on the raw link count
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Also, since the archives have just about 715 posts, almost exactly half of the posts have at least 1 link, and the rest are orphans. This is fascinating, a full 50% of my writing goes literally nowhere
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If I stick with this serial thread-blogging model I'm starting now, then the ranking algorithm post 2019 would need to be different, a sort of weighting by length of chain or something.
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Hmm... a simple way to add that to the formula would be to simply multiply by the "series depth" of a post. So a part-IV post with 1 link would end up with a raw weight of 4.
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What's the mehdian post? ;)
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It's a power law approximately, so the mehdian post is going to have 1 link and APR of ~0.8 or so :)
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