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Re:Bob Moore, Who Founded Bob's Red Mill, Is Dead at 94 by dang on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @05:33PM (#39376518)
We downweighted it because it veered off topic and generic. That's standard moderation practice.
Re:Bob Moore, Who Founded Bob's Red Mill, Is Dead at 94 by kevmo on Thursday February 15, 2024 @01:08PM (#39386082)
Thanks for sharing the internal workings.

I am top mod on a few large ("top 1% by size") subreddits and am always interested in those sorts of perspectives.

Re:Bob Moore, Who Founded Bob's Red Mill, Is Dead at 94 by dang on Thursday February 15, 2024 @04:07PM (#39388866)
I have zero idea of what that would be like! But FWIW downweighting top comments that are generic tangents, or flamey, is probably the biggest thing we ever figured out about thread quality. I just wish it could be automated.