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ttadej
Advisor
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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ttadej
Advisor
8 years ago
Okay.. so how is that different than sorting by kudos.sum(weight)?