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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

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