Promote stories based on the node's view counts

Hi,
I'm not a drigg coder, so you might want to wait for expert opinion.
But here's what I can tell from the top of my head. Drigg works best with Extra Voting Forms, though it can potentially work with other voting modules like Fivestar, Votes Up/Down or Drupalit. All of these voting modules interact with the Voting API, which is where (if I'm not mistaken) Drigg draws it's data from. Now, pageviews is not doing anything with the Voting API -- it's just a simple statistics counter. Therefore, if you would want this kind of functionality developed, technically speaking it would be outside of Drigg scope... it would be a matter of hacking the Voting API to accept pageviews as voting indicators.

However... if you don't want to go into all that complexity with Voting API, why not give it a try with Views module. I would imagine that something like a list of "Most viewed pages" could be easily constructed with Views. Other than that there are many "popularity" modules constructed using the pageview statistics ... just search for them ... First module that rings the bell is Radiation module.

This is just my opinion, but I could be totally wrong.

BUT... I'm not a coder or maintainer of this module... so, I'd suggest that you wait for the module creators to get back to you.

PS: if you come up with a good solution for this, please let the Drigg users know by posting it here.

Good Luck.

Hi:

This is pretty much a duplication of another feature request. See #220242: Karma for clicking external links. There is a solution in the works.

--sicjoy

Hi,

Sicjoy: actually, this is related to the "karma points for external clicks" issue, BUT it's not quite the same!
Summit's request is this: ONCE we do assign karma for clicking on external links, we THEN need to add a "promotion rule" to Drigg so that links which are clicked more than XXX times are promoted.

I need a clarification from Summit: what do you mean by clicking? Do you mean the number of times a story is open within Drigg? (for example: http://www.drigg.org/Various/Aaron_Toponce_My_ZSH_Prompt_Improved ). This information is available _now_ if you have "statistics" turned on; so, it would be rather easy to do. OR, do you mean the number of times somebody clicks on an external link (which is a completely different kettle of fish...)

Bye,

Merc.

Hi,

Sorry, there's a misunderstanding here.
Drigg.org is just a test site. It's not even a real site. Nothing *actually* happens on drigg.org.
So, drigg.org is completely meaningless.

Imagine you have a story, category/some_story_or_other, which points to http://www.external_example_site/some_story.html.

The point was: do you want to promote stories which get the nighest number of views while people stay on your site:

http://www.trekking-world.com/category/some_story_or_other

Or when the user actually goes and read the original story:

http://www.external_example_site/some_story.html

They are two VERY DIFFERENT scenarios: the first one is already kept track of, whereas the second one needs serious, tricky javascript to keep track of.

Bye,

Merc.

Hi,

This is a feature request unrelated to the "external link" click.
I will do this soon.

Merc.

Hi

Summit, sorry but I am not following your request.
In general, taxonomy listings will _never_ be affected by the votes. Drigg will always, and only, display items in order of promotion. This is not something that will ever change.

Bye!

Merc.

Summit:

The Node Radioactivity module may have the functionality that you want as well.

--sicjoy

Hi,

Changed the title, that was driving me bananas.

Merc.

Hi,

This is a duplicate of the "Radioactivity integration" request.
I think that's the way to go.

Bye,

Merc.