This is quite far down the page, even though I posted it a few hours ago. Is that an intended effect of the upvoting/downvoting system? (it may well be—I don’t understand how the algorithm assigns comment rankings)
Just below and to the right of the post there’s a choice of which algorithm to use for sorting comments. I don’t remember what the default is, but I do know that at least some of them sort by votes (possibly with other factors). I normally use the sorting “Old” (i.e. oldest first) and then your comment is near thhe bottom of the page since so many were posted before it.
The algorithm is a complicated mix of recency and score, but on an open thread that only lasts a week, recency is fairly uniform, so it’s pretty much just score.
This is quite far down the page, even though I posted it a few hours ago. Is that an intended effect of the upvoting/downvoting system? (it may well be—I don’t understand how the algorithm assigns comment rankings)
Just below and to the right of the post there’s a choice of which algorithm to use for sorting comments. I don’t remember what the default is, but I do know that at least some of them sort by votes (possibly with other factors). I normally use the sorting “Old” (i.e. oldest first) and then your comment is near thhe bottom of the page since so many were posted before it.
The algorithm is a complicated mix of recency and score, but on an open thread that only lasts a week, recency is fairly uniform, so it’s pretty much just score.