I posted this on the CI forums and someone suggested I put it up over here in feature requests. Alas, I cannot post in that forum because I’m not a registered user, so I’m floating the idea here. Let me know what you think:
As I have become more and more acquainted with CodeIgniter, I’ve come across some great discussions in these forums. The problem, it seems, is these posts are way too difficult to find when doing a quick search. Making “good” posts easier to find would a) decrease the number of repeat topics that crop up in the form and b) help out the more novice users by exposing them to the best material on certain subjects quickly.
Obviously significant changes in the EE forum module would need to be made, but it would be great to see some of the following features added. Ideally, some sort of algorithm would be written that would provide better search results based on some of the following criteria: (1) a digg/reddit like vote up/down system so that active members could rate the usefulness of discussions, and (2) consideration of number of times a post has been viewed, as well as (3) number of posts in the discussion.
Please consider this a humble feature request and not a knock on the excellent work the guys at Ellis Labs are doing
Original post: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/77831/