in reply to Re^5: Social CPAN : Finding the best and most popular modules (thwart)
in thread Social CPAN : Finding the best and most popular modules

If someone complains about a bug from 3 years ago is that rating properly reflective of the utility of the current module?
What if we let votes for older versions of a module count less than votes for recent versions? E.g. by using the pheromone decay principle from ant colony optimization.
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Re^7: Social CPAN : Finding the best and most popular modules (thwart)
by Hercynium (Hermit) on Jan 27, 2009 at 20:11 UTC
    ...pheromone decay principle...

    But that's the problem! There's no pheromone decay module on CPAN!

    Of course... there will be soon if there's a demand for it :)

    /me begins work on Acme::PheromoneDecay::Versioned
Re^7: Social CPAN : Finding the best and most popular modules (thwart)
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 21, 2009 at 09:55 UTC
    Then the terrorists win:P