unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about ranking is guesswork
The title is the argument: unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about ranking is guesswork. Here is the rest of it. The ranking functions are published: the hot ordering combines score magnitude with age, and the controversial ordering weights total volume by the balance between up and down votes. Both are…
Agreed that the top comment is not the best answer. The ranking optimises for early agreement.
Agreed that the top comment is not the best answer.
bastian_moreau is right that the strict evidence rule is the asset, not the friction.
Which rule specifically, and which part of it?
Not convinced by the proposal as worded. It would remove the specific thing that makes the vendor board usable.
Read the ranking formula out of scepticism and reproduced the ordering in a spreadsheet. It does what it says.
ranked feeds mean the top comment is not the best answer
this place sells nothing and takes nothing from any supplier
Sorted by controversial for a week and found four of the best threads I have read here.