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Lemmy hot sort (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Why is the lemmy hot sort seemingly so bad? After the first couple of posts it turns into new posts with no votes, sometimes the same new post multiple times back to back to different communities, and sometimes posts with negative points. I came across a series of posts today with 1 upvote (poster) and 6 downvotes. I don’t get how that can be considered “hot”

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I mean, the good news is I saw this post (currently brand new with very few votes) right away in "hot". So that's nice, I guess?

That said, I have no idea. If I were to hazard a guessz I wonder if the algorithm doesn't have any logic for dealing with outlier vote counts, and brand new posts all end up falling into that outlier case.