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It would bring interesting comment to the top and then they would get a lot of views and go down and it would keep doing this until it sorted by time eventually
by Siecje 14y ago
It would bring interesting comment to the top and then they would get a lot of views and go down and it would keep doing this until it sorted by time eventually
- KajMagnus 14y agoHow strong that effect is, depends on how you implement the algorithm. You don't have to assume a person has read all ancestors, just because he votes on a comment. — If you assume s/he has read only the closest 3 ancestors (which I think is more reasonable), the problem you describe is largely gone. If you do, however, assume all ancestors have been read, I think there would be a tendency that the most popular comments cycled through the topmost positions (up, down, up, down, between position 1, 2, 3 perhaps). But things would not be sorted by time.