Is it some sort of combination of comments and votes on a topic? What are the thresholds? It does seem to not be based on recent activity
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What does the Activity thing mean
I think an ideal sorting for me that we could implement in the short-term would be something like 1. show me any content with trust>0 (new includes new comments on old posts and also includes posts which I haven’t read yet), sorted by trust. Then 2.... Hot sorting doesn't feel so hot
With hot sorting, I’d expect newer content to bubble up more easily than old content, but I have a lot of two week old posts on my front page with new exciting content beneath it. I’ve switched to "New" sorting for this dogfooding.... Read the full postadd a unit test case - if i downvote the shit out of something, it should be at the bottom of my feed