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c/meta·submitted 6 months ago by u/wanjiru_osei

unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about ranking is guesswork

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The title is the argument: unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about ranking is guesswork. Here is the rest of it. The ranking functions are published: the hot ordering combines score magnitude with age, and the controversial ordering weights total volume by the balance between up and down votes. Both are…

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u/prior_auth_painappeals63 points·6 months ago·edited

Push back: the ranking is not hiding anything. The formula is published and you can reproduce the ordering.

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u/mod_ambulatoryMOD26 points·6 months ago

Reminder that no referral or affiliate links are permitted anywhere, from anybody, ever.

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u/enzo_danquah19 points·6 months ago

What is the concrete wording you would replace it with?

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u/camila_sandvik14 points·6 months ago

Feed position is a function of early votes and time. That structurally favours agreeable early answers over correct late ones, which is why sorting by controversial occasionally is worth the effort.

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u/malin_petrescu38 points·6 months ago

Had a post removed, went to modmail, got a specific explanation and disagreed with it politely. It stayed removed and I understood why.

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u/viktor_laurent20 points·6 months ago

This. Modmail first is not bureaucracy; it stops individual cases turning into a public pile-on.

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