Radioactivity Alter

ATTENTION
This module is an extension over the Radioactivity module.
Thus, it has the following dependencies

1. Radioactivity is installed
2. Radioactivity is patched (check https://www.drupal.org/project/radioactivity/issues/3089345)
or
If patch is added to a next Radioactivity release, then just install that version

Use Case

Radioactivity as popularity measurement has the following unwanted side effect.
There are several cases where unwanted nodes become too popular, and therefore are on the top of lists.

e.g. a SAAS platform has a section for Frequently Asked Questions. These questions-answers are nodes which utilise radioactivity.
Most popular articles are important to be shown higher in the lists, but it turns out that most popular articles are of the following context:

1. how do i delete my account on the SAAS service
2. how do i remove all my content and data
...

The above articles are important of course, but it's highly possible that the SAAS owner does not want them to be always first, but a bit or a lot further down the lists.

For such cases, we might need certain nodes to gain energy much slower than the others. So, it might be useful to have a Suppress Energy type of functionality on each node.

This module does exactly this.

How to use
On the content type where a Radioactivity field is already in place

1. Create one more field of type 'Radioactivity Alter'
2. For each node you want to alter its energy step, go into the edit form
3. On the advanced tabs there is one by the name 'Radioactivity Alter'
4. Add an alteration percentage factor e.g 50

Above setup will make the specific node gain energy in 50% less than what Radioactivity is configured to apply on every event.