It's an unintended consequence of removing downvotes. Downvotes used to push controversial posts with lots of comments down on the page, but now it just looks like no one disagreed with the posts.
The algorithm should be re-written to be designed to work right without downvotes.
Yeah, I mentioned in megathread that comment tree is like legit tree, you can parametrize tallness (arguing) vs broadness (response to post) to number and adjust visibility weight by it
It's an unintended consequence of removing downvotes. Downvotes used to push controversial posts with lots of comments down on the page, but now it just looks like no one disagreed with the posts.
The algorithm should be re-written to be designed to work right without downvotes.
Yeah, I mentioned in megathread that comment tree is like legit tree, you can parametrize tallness (arguing) vs broadness (response to post) to number and adjust visibility weight by it