jaimunki
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 Posted: Jun 08, 2006 7:38pm Post subject: |
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"Freshness rating: "Freshness" was developed because giving information like "I last saw this channel at 21:32 Zulu Mountain time" doesn't mean anything. Unused channels are automatically expired after not being seen for a week. Using a complex algorithm, we are also able to weed out temporarily created channels (You know the type... like the guy who joins #ircops_suck just before he's klined). The result is less fluff, and better results. But that still doesn't explain freshness... Since normal channels take up to a week to expire, freshness rating is a calculation of how far the listing is from being expired. Listings with a freshness of 99% or 100% are very recent. A channel with a freshness of 50% means it's not been seen for 3 1/2 days. Thus, at a glance, you can quickly tell if a channel will be something you'd like to check out or not. A low freshness rating doesn't necessarily indicate an outdated channel however. It could also mean network problems like netsplits, channel being set to mode +s (secret), or could indicate a channel that meets occasionally. "
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