How do Faves get selected for inclusion in Topics?

I like your website and have started making Faves using your service. However, when I look under topics/tags I have used, I never see my Faves there. Are Faves in topics randomly selected, selected by somone in your company or is the site not designed to include everyones Faves?

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Mike Koss, Official Rep, replied on April 12, 2008 01:19
That's a good question! We have a ranking algorithm for "popularity" for Faves. If you click on the "Latest" tab in any buzz page you'll see the complete set of public Faves for that tag. For example:

http://faves.com/tag/News - will display the most recently Faved items with the tag "news".
http://faves.com/buzz/News - will display only those Faves that have proved "popular".

Popularity is based on people voting, commenting, and clicking through to read the linked-to web site.

The only way your faves can get "popular" is by other people finding them and taking one of those actions. They can find them by looking at "Latest", because they are one of your Friends, finding them through a search engine, or seeing them display on another web site via our Widget.

The best way to make your Faves popular is to invite your Friends to use Faves so you can start reading each other's Faves and interacting on them. That's why you see our Buzz pages dominated by those users who are active and have an active community who are indirectly ranking their submissions.

Hope that answers your question.

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Mike Koss, Official Rep, replied on April 12, 2008 01:19

That's a good question! We have a ranking algorithm for "popularity" for Faves. If you click on the "Latest" tab in any buzz page you'll see the complete set of public Faves for that tag. For example:

http://faves.com/tag/News - will display the most recently Faved items with the tag "news".
http://faves.com/buzz/News - will display only those Faves that have proved "popular".

Popularity is based on people voting, commenting, and clicking through to read the linked-to web site.

The only way your faves can get "popular" is by other people finding them and taking one of those actions. They can find them by looking at "Latest", because they are one of your Friends, finding them through a search engine, or seeing them display on another web site via our Widget.

The best way to make your Faves popular is to invite your Friends to use Faves so you can start reading each other's Faves and interacting on them. That's why you see our Buzz pages dominated by those users who are active and have an active community who are indirectly ranking their submissions.

Hope that answers your question.

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Eric Franklin commented on May 05, 2008 23:35

Hey Mike, Great answer and I think it's a pretty good idea to use reputation-based feedback to submit content to buzz. I can't help but wonder, however, if it might make sense to help along new users and not make the site an incestuous circle of self-referrals. A lot of my content makes it to buzz because I have nearly 200 friends on Faves. I think that there should maybe be a Digg-like function of the site for people without networks to view and populate the homepages by clicking through and voting on new sites as they come in. It could provide a lot more utility to the Faves pages. Right now I see a lot junk by people who have gamed the system.