how come Lemmy shows more upvoted posts further down the thread instead of at the top?
from sarah2653@lemmy.ml to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 25 Sep 15:00
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?

#nostupidquestions

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philophilsaurus@sh.itjust.works on 25 Sep 15:12 next collapse

Are you sorting by Hot or Active?

trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world on 25 Sep 15:37 next collapse

what decides what goes up and what down?

The sort setting

Stillwater@sh.itjust.works on 25 Sep 15:44 next collapse

Brand new posts get a boost in the ranking

PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works on 25 Sep 16:13 next collapse

I believe “Hot” sorting filters by a mix of recency, score and possibly also activity. If you want to sort by score alone, you can use the dropdown to change the sorting to use “top” instead. There may also be an option in your settings to make this the default if you want to.

mrdown@lemmy.world on 25 Sep 16:33 next collapse

I like chronological feeds

otter@lemmy.ca on 25 Sep 16:33 next collapse

join-lemmy.org/docs/…/03-votes-and-ranking.html

Here is an explanation for each sorting type. It sounds like you’re looking for “Top”. I personally prefer Scaled so that I get some content from the small communities I’m subscribed to

Coopr8@kbin.earth on 26 Sep 00:39 next collapse

Just a note that comment sort is currently broken on Interstellar app, but they are working on fixing it. You can change the default in settings and that will work, but not the menu in posts.

garbagebagel@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 05:41 collapse

I’m on the boost for lemmy app and noticed this happening a few months ago. Seems to be the sort option is broken so shows new by default and needs to be adjusted each community. Once I fix it in each community, it stays that way.