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regarding the old comment sorting, I wonder if recent comments percolate the commented-on comment up anyhow? p-c1-c2 would an activity on C2 influence the s

• chii 5y ago
  depends - but i often see a single, long thread of comments from the highest "voted" comment. this makes it hard to discover lower ranked comments as it's now below the fold, and thus less likely to get votes either. That's why i suggested a random sort, so that each top-level comment has a chance of getting visiblity and thus, remove groupthink and biases from discussion. Of course, the top voted comments would have value - so that's why i suggested only doing this random sorting from aggregated old submissions, rather than for all submissions.
  • froh 5y ago
    well... you can always page across the fold. intuitively I value the ranking of comments of olde higher than a potential contemporary re-evaluation of randomly presented previously less relevant content. a site keen on high engagement certainly would a/b test these hypotheses lol. but the key is to make the previous content available without dang hand-picking it...