Yeah I always hated the reddit paradigm where posts get buried just because they're a few hours old. Often I'll see an interesting post that I want to comment on but I dont bother because the post is over 12 hours old so nobody will see it.
There's a "new comments" mode now which works like a forum where posts get bumped to the top when someone comments on it. Makes more sense to me than any of these vaguely defined algorithms.
Yeah but even if they were alive they should absolutely be left to die. Not even "because they're rich" but because they made their own choice to go down there, it's not our problem lol.