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ttadej
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8 years ago

Difference between popularity and kudos.sum(weight) API v2 sort

I'm curious what the difference is between the API v2 messages sort when using 'popularity' vs 'kudos.sum(weight)'. The docs say that 'popularity' is based on kudos, so are those two sorts the same o...
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VikasB
Boss
8 years ago

ttadej

Sort query results by popularity (kudos only). Most number of the kudos to post increase its popularity.
Posts not having kudos shows the Negative values in popularity. A negative value for the popularity decreases on the number of page views to the post.

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    VikasB
    Boss
    8 years ago

    ttadej  Sort by popularity and sort by kudo weight will never give you the same results. It does not mean that the post having the higher number of kudos will have the higher popularity. Seems popularity depends on some other factors also. 

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      ttadej
      Advisor
      8 years ago
      Ok.. that is what I am trying to figure out. The documentation is not very specific
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    ttadej
    Advisor
    8 years ago
    Okay.. so how is that different than sorting by kudos.sum(weight)?