Boosting Results

[Daniel Hood]

I think it'd nice to take advantage of some of the boosting options available in ElasticSearch. I could see improvements to the search results by adding:

• Boost Nodes
  • Provide a boosted rating (1.0 defualt) to each node, this could be negative or positive (you could make off topic nodes sink and make announcements swim for example).
• Boost Thread Prefixes
  • Same concept
• Boost Content Types
  • Could make thread and posts bubble past profile posts

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