I was searching in Travel board filtering for Trending topics.
I noticed the topics where ordinated by kudos/interactions
was opened in General-Discussion board, but now links to Travel board (that’s why was unavailable for more than one month? Was selected for migration to the new platform and available only to the selected beta testers?).
So, why is not present in the Trending list?
How the Trending filter works?
Thanks
According to my technical experience (we use trend for everything, in industrial process) one of the important information in a trend is time.
According to the Cambridge dictionary “the general direction of changes or developments” or “one of the words, subjects, or names that is being mentioned most often on a social media website or a news website at a particular time”.
You can easily make a graphic with a spreadsheet, using Date - Kudos - Interaction, and you will probably see that the mentioned post, that is dated September 27, 2017, had the maximum of kudos on September 27, followed by the 9/28, then slowly down up to June 5.
So, your post was definitely trendy on the last week of September 2018. Of course, for a correct evaluation, we need to understand the “time unit” used, that will be probably between a week and 10 days.
The same is for all post, included my Local Guides clean the world, that had a good average from March 27 to the end of April
Ermes
Ok @ErmesT so what is the technical definition of “trend” here? We are going in the same, faulty, direction of the algorithm that selects the header image for a POI in maps: nobody knows why, when and what, but some crappy image replaces professional quality images produced by request.
And, again, we have the “featured” row, why add “trendy points” to the same threads? In Travel topic, to find a user “trendy” thread, we have to load “more” twice, to go over all the featured, connect moderators, googlers, topics.
This places poor and standard users content in really unrelevant position, giving them poor chance to be seen and commented, that’s really a move in the opposite direction of connect core values.
This is going to be a magazine; the next move will be an email asking users to send an email with their stories, and then the team will decide wether or not feature them and show it in the magazine.
All these considerations should have be done during the long beta testing phase, but I think none did.
What will probably happen is that long term users will stop contributing on connect as usual, many, many new lg users will add one or two topics before disappearing, and many, many new content will be featured within CM circle, that will become the “magazine editor” team. And I think this is exactly what the team wanted with this change.
Thanks