• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I totally agree here. And I want to take it a step further and instead of sorting by average votes, we should merely be including it as one of many indicators, such as:

    • number of direct child comments
    • number of total descendant comments
    • maybe length of direct child comments - a longer response is more likely to be an interesting rebuttal than a “go away troll” comment
    • number of independent users among total descendant comments - if it’s just the same two people going back and forth, that’s just a good, old-fashioned argument that most won’t care to read

    And so on. But instead, we seem to just sort by upvotes - downvotes and call it a day.