Change to HOTM

[Paul M]

New thread as advised.

Originally Posted by Paul M

Actually I'd like to know exactly how it does work, since my top three hacks have had 250, 160 and 135 installs in the last 31 days, which is more than any of the above ???

Originally Posted by Brad

It's based on the thread-dateline and number of installs.

The cron script gets hacks posted in the last month and sorts them by number of total installs. From this list the top five hacks are taken and inserted into the poll.

I'm guessing that your hacks where released before September 15th, so they where not included in the poll due to the dateline.

Originally Posted by Paul M

Except the release date of the Extended Signatures is 02 Sep 2005,

IMO (biased of course) if a hack is popular enough in the last month to get xxx installs then surly it should qualify for Hack of the Month ? irrespective of when it was released. Only previous winners should be excluded.

Originally Posted by Brad

I agree, but did not code the script in question (Xenon is the man you're looking for). It seems Extended Signature Limits was last updated on the 2nd of this month, I think that is why it was included in this poll.

If you would like to propse changes in the way we select hacks for the poll please post a new thread in site feedback. More people will see the discussion there and I'd rather keep it outside of this thread.

Originally Posted by Xenon

it takes the last 5 weeks of released threads, and sorts them by install count.

that way hacks which are VERY popular in the first week of their release can be in two polls.

As for basing it not on the releasedate but on the install dates: i thought about that myself as well, and we might change it soon, but we'll see

I'm still a bit confused as Sep 2nd is more than 5 weeks ago .....

Anyway, it seems to me that myself (and I'm sure others) have basically been penalised for releasing 3.5 hacks early - the full release of 3.5 has seen a sharpe increase in installs, but because they were released a while ago, they are barred from the hotm vote.

In the future I would like to propose the vote includes any hack that is not a previous winner, based on it's installs in the previous 30 days.

No doubt any change will be too late for me (again ), but at least someone may benefit from a fairer system.

[Chris M]

I think, honestly, we should go back partly to how it used to be, with nominations

That way we can use a script to check for a list of hacks, say 20 hacks, and people nominate 5 of them, and 5 with the most nominations first get in

Chris

[Logikos]

Yea, now that 3.5 is gold, I have 100's of installs, and wasn't even in the poll for this month. I was for last month only cause I purposly waited for the date to release it.

i think we need two HotM... Best New Release, and Most Popular this Month...

that's the problem with the actual HotM, that's unclear for everything...

and my vision of a month is a "1st start it" and a "30th ends it"... not 15th ot this and 15 of the other...

btw, i would suggest to move the HotM forum to the Site Feedbacks forum, because it's a place to feedback our appreciation of the hacks released, it's not related to the announcements of the board itself...

my other 2¢