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?

  • SethranKada@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Its decided by the sorting option you choose. It sounds like you want the option called “Top”, though you haven’t said what time range you want, so you might just want to start with “All Time”

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    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).