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Tom Achronos
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."
No, that's not correct.
The system calculates how active a group is and ranks them all by activity once a day. There are many things factored into it, although it currently is heavily weighted to the membership size (probably incorrectly so, but there were a limited number of metrics available to use at the time).
But, from there, it takes the top 250 "most active groups", and randomly picks a few of them to be the ones shown in the spotlight. It does this because if it only ever showed the top 10 or so, they'd hardly ever change, and that really isn't an effective way to get people to see what is out there.
So, GH, that's why MBT is hardly ever on there - even though it usually ranks pretty high, it is subject to a dice roll first, and won't always be picked.
Posted by: Guardian Hunter
One of the constraints of the algorithm is that the largest groups are never picked no matter how active they are. It only picks mid-sized groups with semi to high activity and some of the group's don't even really meet that qualification.