Comment 3 for bug 1049376

I've attached .deb containing a version of the askubuntu scope set to filter out results with less than 2 votes, for testing. After installing, kill the unity-scope-askubuntu process (which will be from the original version of the scope) The new version will then start automatically when the lens is activated.

As you say, there is a risk of ending up excluding useful results by adding too many restrictions to the searches that are run. Is there any statistical information available about Askubuntu that could help find a decent threshold for results? For example, number of questions (and %) per no of votes, or votes vs views. These could be useful to see how many questions would be excluded, and how popular they are.

A similar approach could be used with the asklibreoffice scope, since it has a similar voting mechanism. Although it has far less votes cast than on askubuntu.