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It is sorted by top comments, with brand new comments getting top spot temporarily so they are not instantly buried.

• mattigames 9y ago
  It's a bad system; it promotes upvoting the already top-comment and commenting on it or the initial replies to it; the best way would be to pseudo-randomize posts order but biased towards those with higher score (e.g. so the top-rated-comment sometimes appears second, some rare times third; and some extremely rare times forth [regardless of how old any of those comments are])
  • ianai 9y ago
    I wonder if a two or three column view would be better. Could have a current best and newest sort. Third column could be random.
  • FabHK 9y ago
    An option to hide/expand comment trees might help, as you could easily hide the first comment (and everything that hangs off it) and check out the next ones (without having to manually scan indentation).
  • pathseeker 9y ago
    IIRC people replying to a comment without upvoting it will down-rank it. So OT discussions survive only if they are highly upvoted.