Sorting the threads by their bump score

[hosseinimr93]

According to what Theymos said, bump score is calculated for all of the threads.

every thread forum-wide has a bump score, with the same mechanism of operation everywhere.

So we can sort the threads by their bump score in other boards too. However their bump score is only affected by mini-bumps, it's really useful.

Meta: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0;sort=bump;desc
Bitcoin discussion: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=1.0;sort=bump;desc
Altcoin discussion: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0;sort=bump;desc

This is useful to find the threads that high-merit users are interested in them.
We can easily find the threads that contain useful posts by best users of the forum.

[DdmrDdmr]

I was checking the above on my local board, where the effect is easier to trace due to the number of posts and posters being lowish. I was expecting a specific thread to be at the top, since a few posts were added yesterday there by me and other (merited within the last year) forum members, but I found it further down than expected, despite the fact that it had more interaction than the once place on top (which I had also participated in).

It took me a minute to remember that bump score decays over time. Since the thread that has more interaction was basically bumped during the morning, it had lost about a third of its score in comparison to those bumped in the late evening. That’s fine, and is good by desing. I just had to remember that position is pretty time sensitive when interpreting the order I was seeing.