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Submitted by echofloripa, 28th August 2011, 7:29:38 AM

I wanted to have a section on the main page, or on a sidebox, that would show the best rated (Thread Rating) topics? It would be great if this was something native on mybb, as that user supplied information seems to be used very little.

The problem is that important topics end up falling down on themain list of last updated topics (I have that on the side bar) and they can't be seen by the users. So the best way to keep important topics visible is to give the users the choice which ones are more important, using the rating system.

This functionality could be able to generate up to 4 boxes ont he main page:
1) top ranked threads of the day (created in 24 hours before)
2) top ranked threads of the week
3) top ranked threads of the month
3) top ranked threads of all time

I implemented this by changing an existing plugin that would show the latest threads.

Instead of just using the ranking value, the thanks given (thanks/like system) and even the number of readers could be used to generate this classification.

In my case my formula is:
TRUNCATE(t.totalratings/t.numratings*2+t.numratings/8+tyl_tnumtyls,2)

Which I am still adjusting, as you need to take in consideration many factors...

Here i discuss how I got this working:
http://community.mybb.com/thread-102618.html