"Interest Rankings" - How Are They Calculated?

I'm not sure how the rankings are figured, but I think it has something to do with how many + ratings you get in ratio to the number of people listed in that catagory.

That is what I have notice too. Lately I've seen discussion about star rating problems that arouse my curiosity. I notice that both star and interest rating are somewhat misleading to that particular interest. Star rating are general over all rating somewhat like "Hey! I'm a expert blogger what can I do with your leaking faucet", not that he don't now it but the reader/viewer would take her word for it because of that blue star. The same thing with the interest ranking, that show how many post he did in that particular interest, or create one, but its all "I dont know thing", would you take him/her as on top leaderboard. There maybe so many here that could distinguish it, how many are they?

i don't think that interest ranking related with star ranking, my dear friend. but from i ever read before when mylot starting idea about interest ranking, interest ranking will show us how often we drop any response or discussion within those kind interest. after all, i still don't understand either what the use of interest ranking in here and the reason why mylot put it in their feature in here?

I don't know either Annie and I have never really thought about it My best ranking must be in My Gissi then lol I really do not understand any of the ranking here

i have really no clear idea about how they are calculated. actually i think it also depends on how you are again rated in your discussions here under that category. its only my guess.i also think no of posting sometimes determines the ranking.

Hello anniepa! I don't really KNOW how interest rankings are calculated, but I have some idea based on observations and experiments. It is not dependent, directly, on your star number at all, but there IS a correlation in the sense that if you are rated negative, it will not only affect your ranking in that interest area but also the star rating. When you start a discussion under your own newly created interest category, you are ranked number one in that interest category, provided at least one user rates you. Now other users will respond and their ranking will also depend if they are rated or not. Their ranking, too, will only appear if they are rated. Now, assume that you start a discussion under this new interest category and people respond and every one is positively rated, you will be ranked number 1, the first responder, if rated first, will be ranked 2nd and so on and so forth. If, however, you rate second responder first, then second responder will get 2nd position on leader board. This is what I have seen on discussions where people started new interest categories. I would, thus, assume that same methodology is applied to interest areas which already exist. So, it is a combination of your overall participation and then getting rated. If you are rated positively for all your inputs and you have many inputs, your ranking will be among the top on leaderboard.