So scenario: A news story involving Ukraine enters my feed. I read the article, as one does, and dive into the comments. Usually around the 2rd or 3th post, I’ll see some Z ass post with several downvotes and few upvotes, and a comment chain where two people argue endlessly about shit that ultimately shouldn’t really matter.
Normally on reddit, or any other social platforms with a downvote system, such posts would be towards the bottom, but here on lemmy.world, or kbin, or several other fedis, such post seem to have just as much, if not more weight as highly upvoted comments would.
Now I’m a very casual user, and maybe there’s just something I haven’t set up correctly, but I thought for at least the sake of the user experience a weighting feature would be implemented by default. Here it feels like I’m sorting by controversial with every other post.
Idk, maybe it’s not a problem for other users, but it’s definitely something I’ve noticed here.
What are you sorting the comments by? Sorting them by active might cause that, but I’m not sure. I’ve noticed it happen to me too
On Lemmy.world, I see Hot, top, new, and old for comments, and I’m set to hot like I would be on reddit. Meanwhile, if I set it to top or old for example, it only stay like that until I click out.
Hot is supposedly bugged for most right now. I’ve been sticking with New and Top of Day until they get the kinks worked out.