Controversial posts and comments · Issue #2515 · LemmyNet/lemmy
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Posts and comments ordered by most total votes but that are close to zero score. I guess this should only be available on instances with the downvotes active.

There is a request for a comment on this issue Controversial posts and comments #2515. Do you have any ideas on how best to implement this?

I’d like to see some more people chime in with opinions, but maybe that’ll come with a PR. At the very least, it’s something that can be moved forward with.

— dcormier

  • Modal@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    It might depend on the definition but I’d probably expect engagement/total to play a bigger factor.

    As it is it weights very heavily towards evenness:
    A: (11, 10) = 21
    B: (99, 90) = 21

    They have the same ratio of votes but I’d expect B to be more controversial since more votes are tied up in the controversy / it got more attention. Maybe most people just don’t care about A so they didn’t bother to vote.