Meta-LW question: What does the comment sorting system actually do? I assumed it was Reddit’s “best” system, but then noticed some highly-upvoted, seemingly non-criticized comments below worse-seeming ones. Am I just crazy?
I vaguely remember noticing something similar a while back and concluding, after some poking around, that sorting by score sorts by number-of-upvotes rather than number-of-upvotes-minus-number-of-downvotes.
I no longer remember how I concluded this or whether I was justified in doing so.
Meta-LW question: What does the comment sorting system actually do? I assumed it was Reddit’s “best” system, but then noticed some highly-upvoted, seemingly non-criticized comments below worse-seeming ones. Am I just crazy?
I vaguely remember noticing something similar a while back and concluding, after some poking around, that sorting by score sorts by number-of-upvotes rather than number-of-upvotes-minus-number-of-downvotes.
I no longer remember how I concluded this or whether I was justified in doing so.
Maybe recency is a factor in your current sorting scheme? Could be based on recent voting patterns, even.