trythil wrote:dwchang wrote:Farlo wrote:i think the idea wouldnt work, look at the videos with above average downloads, like dokidoki for instance, single videos that have more downloads than most creators entire catalog.
Exactly. The sheer processing power, server time to do calculations, etc. would certainly not make it worthwhile.
Er, averages aren't
that hard to calculate on large datasets.
It's not a simple average though. Listing thousands of creators on one site for each video, per member is literally a million or more pages and further, each would have to be calculated either on the fly or at a certain designated time (either every day/hour/whatever).
My understanding is that doing that would take a pretty long amount of time given the dataset present. Even with as many processors as we have for the server, it's still a lot of calculations *per* member, *per* video. Given I'm not sure the infrastructure of the site, but it seems like a little too much work for the amount you get back.
...and ultimately, it's still a waste of resources (imo) when we could use that power and space on something more useful like making the site run faster.
