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I misspelt the last sentence a bit. I meant division "or" logarithm.

Basically, we have an unbounded counter that is gonna start breaking things. So we need to normalize it to a percentage score (by dividing it by the total favoured count across all tags), or pass it through a logarithm to bound it.

This approach only works if all content is accurately tagged, which works basically nowhere on the internet except Wikipedia.



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