For posts, I'm not sure what the algorithm is (I think it's deliberately more complicated, and has to take into account time of posting?), but after this articl

For posts, I'm not sure what the algorithm is (I think it's deliberately more complicated, and has to take into account time of posting?), but after this article [the op] was written, reddit implemented the method for comments, as explained by Randall Munroe: http://www.redditblog.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-system.html http://www.redditblog.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sortin... You only get this ranking method if you sort the comments by 'best' though