DSSS, Dsource, and cpan

[David B. Held]

Gregor Richards wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Gregor Richards wrote:
>>> Percentages are bad because votes get progressively less important. 
>>> If the project was bad but then got its act together, it will still 
>>> never have a positive rating.
>>
>> That's why I suggested that people can change their votes, and that 
>> votes expire after a year. That keeps the results from getting too stale.
> 
> Ah right. I haven't really been following this thread carefully :P
> 
> + vote from me then.

Or, if you wanted to get really technical, you could weight each vote by 
its age, so that brand new votes are weighted 1.0, and the oldest vote 
is weighted 0.0, and everything in between is interpolated.  Or, you 
could combine that with a moving window to simply drop off old votes.

Dave