Is it just me/my browser, or has something changed in the Less Wrong code regarding the “Best” comment ordering? For example, it seemed like before if there were a bunch of 0% positive comments and a 50% positive comment, then the latter would almost always be at the bottom, but now I’m seeing them and even negative karma posts above or between neutral or positive karma posts. Has anyone else noticed this?
AFAICT, “Best” is ordered strictly by the number of upvotes, and isn’t tempered by the number of downvotes. What shows up seems to vary by what’s currently trending (varying by your configured comment window), rather than changes to the logic.
That may be the case now, but a part of my brain is certain that in the past downvotes did have a significant effect on ordering. Like, if a 10-point comment got one downvote, it would fall below a 6-point comment without any downvotes. Feelings of certainty are of course very unreliable, but I don’t see any obvious reasons why this one is wrong.
Is it just me/my browser, or has something changed in the Less Wrong code regarding the “Best” comment ordering? For example, it seemed like before if there were a bunch of 0% positive comments and a 50% positive comment, then the latter would almost always be at the bottom, but now I’m seeing them and even negative karma posts above or between neutral or positive karma posts. Has anyone else noticed this?
AFAICT, “Best” is ordered strictly by the number of upvotes, and isn’t tempered by the number of downvotes. What shows up seems to vary by what’s currently trending (varying by your configured comment window), rather than changes to the logic.
That may be the case now, but a part of my brain is certain that in the past downvotes did have a significant effect on ordering. Like, if a 10-point comment got one downvote, it would fall below a 6-point comment without any downvotes. Feelings of certainty are of course very unreliable, but I don’t see any obvious reasons why this one is wrong.
Maybe you used “Popular” or “Top” as an ordering criteria in the past?