Coming in late Still heavily impacts your ability to be seen, and votes are still to powerful.

Pryotra·10/30/2014, 3:25:26 AM·4 votes·1,164 views

So, I have an example that adequately shows a couple issues.

Here, we can see that not only are votes FAR too powerful still, but also that how early you come in to a conversation still means everything.

Under my one-liner about Valve being unable to count to 3, you see a huge comment string from Morello himself actually addressing the issue, with alot of discussion and what not. My one liner got 1 response, and was simply far earlier in the conversation.

So tell me, why should my one liner, off topic joke be more visible than a Red speaking on topic with loads to discussion and back and forth? There is no value that one-liner has that outshines all of what Morello and the Cass community had going on.

If this doesn't prove the point that the hot sort is using a fundamentally flawed algorithm, I really honestly don't know what will. There is no reason that the default sort should ever be so flawed.

http://imgur.com/MxOf8TL

4 Comments

Sir ArmaMalum10/30/2014, 4:22:19 AM1 votes

While I agree with you I would like to also expand on the subject. What would you suggest doing in its place that can prioritize 'good' posts over the (not nescessarily bad) 'low-quality' posts?

I ask this because I also believe that the vBulletin system ran into the same problem as well, albeit in a more direct, simpler way. First come first serve. So in my eyes a third, overall better method would need to be conceived.

SnowFall10/31/2014, 9:52:35 AM1 votes

Give more specialized upvotes and downvotes like honor system

Related to game improvement

Positive "Helpful" "Must-see suggestion" "This is Genius!"

Negative "Unhelpful" "Imbalanced" "Useless"

Related to other good things

Positive "Funny" "Cute" "Beautiful"

Negative "Troll" "Stop wasting my time" "Try again"