The trouble is that LW has no “bumping” and only minimal advertising of new comments—if you post something new in an old thread it’s not easily available to people.
I’ve suggested implementing (optional) thread-bumping in Discussion on twooccasions. Both times, the suggestion received very little agreement (as measured by upvotes), and I’ve never understood why. It seems like an obvious improvement to me.
I (and possibly others) look through for discussion posts I haven’t read based on date. Sorting by upvotes allows one to see which recent threads are active and saving posts allows you to follow discussions you’ve been reading. Recent comments also follows where the latest additions of any kind have been made.
In that environment, I think there’s a limited number of people who are interested in “bumping” the same way one would see on a forum.
Would the bump happen because of a comment, because of karma, or because of both?
I would like to avoid the diseased Facebook sorting algorithm at all costs here. Some arbitrary assessment of posts and karma should not be used to bring topics to the top.
Perhaps we could make it possible to select from a list sorted by most recent comment, most recent karma and most recent post?
The trouble is that LW has no “bumping” and only minimal advertising of new comments—if you post something new in an old thread it’s not easily available to people.
Upvoted for discussing the problem.
I’ve suggested implementing (optional) thread-bumping in Discussion on two occasions. Both times, the suggestion received very little agreement (as measured by upvotes), and I’ve never understood why. It seems like an obvious improvement to me.
I (and possibly others) look through for discussion posts I haven’t read based on date. Sorting by upvotes allows one to see which recent threads are active and saving posts allows you to follow discussions you’ve been reading. Recent comments also follows where the latest additions of any kind have been made.
In that environment, I think there’s a limited number of people who are interested in “bumping” the same way one would see on a forum.
Would the bump happen because of a comment, because of karma, or because of both?
I would like to avoid the diseased Facebook sorting algorithm at all costs here. Some arbitrary assessment of posts and karma should not be used to bring topics to the top.
Perhaps we could make it possible to select from a list sorted by most recent comment, most recent karma and most recent post?