If you're feeling extra spicy, upvote someone else's comment and reply to it. Or reply to it without upvoting. Or upvote every other comment in a chain. Have real-life arguments. Anything to simulate a struggle session.

I've been agitating for a while now about the active sort algorithm being broken since downvotes were removed, and a few days ago I remember seeing a post in the modlog that had a lot of comments but that I hadn't seen on the front page. I want to test whether or not the algorithm was tweaked to deprioritize posts with a lot of comments and relatively few upvotes.

If this change has been made, o7 to the devs

EDIT: Okay maybe give it a few upvotes to get it started in the algorithm, but let it top out at like 25

  • liberal [none/use name]A
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    4 years ago

    Thank you for the troubleshooting session, this is a known issue. We are aware there are things to fix with the active sort algorithm. While it is not at the top of our priorities right now, if others would like to chip in to address this, please go to https://hexbear.net/c/hexbear