You might remember this post where I asked about how sorting by “Hot” gives you a lot of new posts that were posted in quick succession, making it look like “New”.

I was recommend by a few to use “Scaled”, so recently I did. Except this felt even worse: I saw new posts that were posted in succession with 0 upvotes, one having 1 upvote.

Isn’t this weird? Or am I doing it wrong?

  • .Donuts@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Thanks! That clears up a lot. Appreciate the paraphrasing too.

    You’re making assumptions about how they work based on your intuition

    Small difference: I made the assumption that the simplified version was exactly how it works, as in, taking the comment at face value.