weighting

You do it with the stories, by weighting them manually.

Those rankings give a 60% weighting towards research rather than teaching.

This is over and above not weighting the link if the URL does otherwise make it onto its to crawl list.

De-weighting RG is one thing, nuking it into the ground is entirely different, and is in my opinion unwarranted.

There is also the problem of weighting, like you mention, and I don't think anyone is comfortable with it but I don't think it's as ad-hoc as you make it out to be.

People who place a lot of value on their "expertise" in Blub tend to do so because they're over-weighting the importance of their memory of the API details.

Of course as a white, British, heterosexual, able-bodied, 20-something male, my opinion is given a - weighting.

No technology is free of flaws and engineering decisions are almost always based on weighting the pros and cons and choosing a solution that on balance works best.

Typically researchers develop their own methods for weighting samples in the temperature reconstructions and many of these methods would make a statistician cringe.

It doesn't answer the question of why Reinhart and Rogoff chose to exclude certain high-debt years for certain countries or why they chose the particular weighting mechanism that the critics found problematic.

It also decreases the level of engagement, readability of a thread, and because weighting of comments is now invisible there is no reason to upvote or downvote anything, or read any particular comment over another.