cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36655278
I was expecting lemmy to sort posts by upvotes but this is not the case: I often find a post with 70 upvotes further down the thread than a post with 20 upvotes.
what decides what goes up and what down?
My client (Jerboa) is defaulting to Hot for comment sorting. I don’t think I’ve touched it. It does the same. I think it’s just that time is weighted more heavily than the quantity of votes most comments typically receive so it seems like it sorts inverse by time (as in most recent first).