# Query question: scoring docs with a field in common lower
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-question-scoring-docs-with-a-field-in-common-lower/202208
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 3, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-question-scoring-docs-with-a-field-in-common-lower/202208 "2019-10-03T15:40:22Z")
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### Author:  [@ianehlert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ianehlert)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-question-scoring-docs-with-a-field-in-common-lower/202208/1 "2019-10-03T15:40:23Z")
This is probably a solved problem, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to search for the way to do this in elasticsearch.
I'd like to be able to apply a weight to the score on documents that share a field value. For example, if I have a bunch of posts, I'd like multiple posts by a single user to be scored lower for each subsequent one found. The first one would have an unmodified score, the next would have a weight of 0.9 applied to its score, and so on. There are other filters, etc that would be applied, but that's the simplest case.
Any pointers would be much appreciated!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-question-scoring-docs-with-a-field-in-common-lower/202208/2 "2019-10-31T15:40:39Z")
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