"Best" Sorting doesn't work

Elphrihaim·Oct 26, 2014·1 votes·812 views

You can't tell me, with a straight face, that something with 177 upvotes belongs above something with over 300 in a sorting system that is "highest upvote total".

So not only is this sorting method not-very-useful-for-using-the-boards (very useful to have, if you want to read some good threads, for sure, just not really going to be useful to discuss things with)...

It doesn't properly work. [Don't mind my bookmarks. I wanted to be sure to show the problem and the proof that I was on 'best' sorting, but if I had shown the top of the page then I would have a lot of wasted space and a less-good group of examples.]

edit: OH AND YOU CAN'T ADD ATTACHMENTS AFTER POSTING THINGS. I JUST TRIED. http://imgur.com/a/bfqYv So have some additional imagery.

13 Comments

GavranOct 26, 20141 votes

Nobody ever said it was only about the number of votes on the OP, though...

There are probably lots of factors: votes on the OP, votes in the thread total, views, comments, who knows what else.

In this particular case I'm guessing it has a lot do with the second one. The skin ideas thread has lots of comments that are highly rated. One sits at nearly three times the vote count of the thread below it. The whiny GDer circlejerk thread has one comment with less than 50 upvotes.

I'd guess that has something to do with whiny circlejerks not promoting discussion, and it being a lot more work to vote on individual comments vs whole threads with a lot of smurf accounts, but draw your own conclusions. :)

GavranOct 26, 20142 votes

(Coincidentally though, you're not wrong that sort by Best isn't particularly helpful for much. It should probably be, like Reddit, best in X time period. (Day, week, month, all time))

ElphrihaimOct 26, 20141 votes

Oh, glooorious.

That sounds like it should be a separate sorting method-- 'Best Thread' v 'Best Post'.

'_'

RaptameiOct 27, 20141 votes

Stop using Best sorting, stop propagating the circlejerk.

DaenOct 27, 20142 votes

Wat.

The OP is literally complaining about the exact feature you apparently feel is a bad thing...He's not "propagating the circlejerk", he's skeptical of its purpose and usefulness.

Hyrum GraffOct 28, 20141 votes

Wat

The OP is literally complaining about the exact feature you apparently feel is a bad thing...He's not "propagating the circlejerk", he's skeptical of its purpose and usefulness.

ftfy (internet grammar)

DaenOct 28, 20141 votes

That's identical to what I wrote.

Hyrum GraffOct 28, 20141 votes

Look closer :P I did give you a hint ()

DaenOct 28, 20142 votes

If you're referring to the period after "Wat", we're done here.

Hyrum GraffOct 28, 20141 votes

I guess we're done here.

ElphrihaimOct 27, 20141 votes

Using best sorting

Can be VERY useful as a >READER< that does not intend to post any content, but wants to view a very popular and opinion-filled thread.

perpetual circlejerk

I still am not sure what that word means but I'm pretty sure that the Boards already perpetuate it.

Daen

<3 Though I'm not skeptical of its purpose (I think it's good to have, but it needs subdivisions e.g. 'most upvotes divided by age', 'most upvotes within the last week', etc), I'm just saying that it seems to not really work.

ElphrihaimOct 28, 20141 votes

You put a period after a "wat" because you need to do a full stop.

It is not merely "wat are you doing", right?

It's "WAT. WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"

There's a full stop. In english, you tend to represent that with a period.

So internet grammar =/= proper english grammar -> I prefer the former

And "ftfy" with no content is shameful... a shameful display of :why i hate boards:

People write these <1 line comments while quoting a body that's bigger than the content of their message.

Or write these <1 line comments in response to a body without giving any indication of what they're responding to (VBulletin v Reddit view).

,_,

DaenOct 28, 20141 votes