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Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook by ballenf on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:52AM (#17204433)
Does anyone understand the sorting algorithm used? On the rare occasion I go to yt comments, I’m baffled why garbage throwaway comments with few votes are higher than thoughtful highly voted responses.
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Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook by detaro on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:53AM (#17204444)
As far as I know, it's an activity metric. So negative votes send it upwards too, as do many outraged or joke replies.
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