- a small change to the rating algorithm: you get only 1/2 a bonus point

  for each succesful node and you loose 1/2 a bonus point for all dumped
  nodes

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/modules/rating.module b/modules/rating.module
index 546c53a68..c38f2a2d4 100644
--- a/modules/rating.module
+++ b/modules/rating.module
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ $module = array("cron" => "rating_cron",
                 "block" => "rating_block");
 
 function rating_cron() {
+  global $status;
+
   $period = 5184000;  // 60 days
   $number = 30;       // 30 comments
   $offset = 5;        // 5 comments
@@ -14,13 +16,18 @@ function rating_cron() {
   while ($rating = db_fetch_object($r1)) {
     unset($bonus); unset($votes); unset($score); unset($value); unset($weight);
 
-    $r2 = db_query("SELECT COUNT(nid) AS number FROM nodes WHERE author = '$rating->id' AND (". time() ." - timestamp < $period) AND status = 2");
+    $r2 = db_query("SELECT COUNT(nid) AS number FROM nodes WHERE author = '$rating->id' AND (". time() ." - timestamp < $period) AND status = '$status[posted]'");
     if ($story = db_fetch_object($r2)) {
-      $bonus = $story->number;
+      $bonus += $story->number / 2;
+    }
+
+    $r3 = db_query("SELECT COUNT(nid) AS number FROM nodes WHERE author = '$rating->id' AND (". time() ." - timestamp < $period) AND status = '$status[dumped]'");
+    if ($story = db_fetch_object($r3)) {
+      $bonus -= $story->number / 2;
     }
 
-    $r3 = db_query("SELECT score, votes FROM comments WHERE author = '$rating->id' AND (". time() ." - timestamp < $period) ORDER BY timestamp LIMIT $number");
-    while ($comment = db_fetch_object($r3)) {
+    $r4 = db_query("SELECT score, votes FROM comments WHERE author = '$rating->id' AND (". time() ." - timestamp < $period) ORDER BY timestamp LIMIT $number");
+    while ($comment = db_fetch_object($r4)) {
       $weight++;
       $score += $weight * $comment->score;
       $votes += $weight * $comment->votes;