jaykrown@lemmy.world to Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoComments on Lemmy should be automatically sorted by controversial rather than by hotmessage-squaremessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down113
arrow-up116arrow-down1message-squareComments on Lemmy should be automatically sorted by controversial rather than by hotjaykrown@lemmy.world to Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square18linkfedilink
minus-squarejaykrown@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoThat’s completely untrue, it impacts what people see when they load the site.
minus-squareitsathursday@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoUsed by people when giving the votes I think they mean, not by the sorting logic to view posts and comments. Eg. Agree = upvote, disagree = downvote when in reality, it should be known that upvote = more visibility, downvote = less visibility.
minus-square.Donuts@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 month agoyup, this. It can be “controversial” according to the algo but it’s just a guy being downvoted because they are unpopular, for example
That’s completely untrue, it impacts what people see when they load the site.
Used by people when giving the votes I think they mean, not by the sorting logic to view posts and comments. Eg. Agree = upvote, disagree = downvote when in reality, it should be known that upvote = more visibility, downvote = less visibility.
yup, this. It can be “controversial” according to the algo but it’s just a guy being downvoted because they are unpopular, for example