I had considered something along those lines, but it seemed to me to be a bit vague. I suspect it would produce adequate results in the majority of cases, but I'd prefer something that gave the content provider finer control. I like the idea of being able to say exactly where in a feed an item should be positioned. Then again I'm not a content provider so maybe that's not the sort of thing they're looking for.
Eric Scheid wrote:
thinking more ... I think the way to handle this is that the client application could weight the ranking with the age of the item, and thus a rank#1 item would appear near the top of the list, and then slowly drop away. You also get to know what the original ranking for an item is.
