jaykrown@lemmy.world to Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agoComments on Lemmy should be automatically sorted by controversial rather than by hotmessage-squaremessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareComments on Lemmy should be automatically sorted by controversial rather than by hotjaykrown@lemmy.world to Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agomessage-square15linkfedilink
minus-square.Donuts@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·26 days agoConsidering upvotes and downvotes are used trivially, it doesn’t really make any difference
minus-squarejaykrown@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·26 days agoThat’s completely untrue, it impacts what people see when they load the site.
minus-squareitsathursday@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·26 days 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-up0·26 days agoyup, this. It can be “controversial” according to the algo but it’s just a guy being downvoted because they are unpopular, for example
Considering upvotes and downvotes are used trivially, it doesn’t really make any difference
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