Timeline for Could PPCG benefit from a new sorting mode for answers?
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| Aug 14, 2014 at 15:04 | comment | added | trichoplax is on Codidact now | @PhiNotPi yes I agree. That's why I think it would need to include time too. | |
| Aug 14, 2014 at 15:00 | comment | added | PhiNotPi | I don't think that this method would have much impact, since downvotes are really quite rare. It is entirely feasible that the top N posts to a question all have 0 downvotes, in which case the ordering would be the same and we would still encounter the problem of the first posts getting all the visibility and votes. | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 15:01 | comment | added | overactor | It could also be interesting to use higher statistical confidence for lower rep and users and people that are not logged in, users with higfh rep would use a low statistical significance. This way trusted users get presented with more content that still needs a concensus and new users see the entries that can safely be assumed to be at least decent to good. | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 14:53 | comment | added | overactor | This is a very interesting approach though as mention in several places, our downvotes don't work like the ones on reddit, so we would either need to use time, (unique) question views, total votes or a combination thereof. I'd also suggest using a more optimistic approach to the statistics, using the best score with 5% confidence for instance, thus favoring new answers during their first few votes, even if things don't look superb. | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 14:06 | history | edited | trichoplax is on Codidact now | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 921 characters in body |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 13:48 | comment | added | trichoplax is on Codidact now | Actually this isn't the same algorithm Firefly is describing - reddit uses "hot" and "best". This one is "best" and isn't about time but statistical confidence. | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 13:42 | comment | added | trichoplax is on Codidact now | Ah - I see Firefly beat me to it by 59s... :) | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 13:42 | history | answered | trichoplax is on Codidact now | CC BY-SA 3.0 |