Controversial posts and comments · Issue #2515 · LemmyNet/lemmy
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Posts and comments ordered by most total votes but that are close to zero score. I guess this should only be available on instances with the downvotes active.

There is a request for a comment on this issue Controversial posts and comments #2515. Do you have any ideas on how best to implement this?

I’d like to see some more people chime in with opinions, but maybe that’ll come with a PR. At the very least, it’s something that can be moved forward with.

— dcormier

  • doylio@lemmy.ca
    2·
    1 year ago

    My first thought is to rank items by totalVotes / score. This would prioritize posts that get lots of votes in both directions.

    Example:

    def getControversialScore(upvotes, downvotes):
  return (upvotes + downvotes) / abs(upvotes - downvotes)

getControversialScore(50, 10) # 1.5
getControversialScore(4, 5) # 9
getControversialScore(6, 30) # 1.44
getControversialScore(30, 28) # 29
    • l3mming@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      I like this. Super clean and simple.

      That said, I suspect Reddit’s ‘controversial’ sorting might work a little differently, as I often used it to see what the crazy people were saying.

      I haven’t played with the numbers, but I’m not sure that your proposal would push the crazies to the top - just the moderate crazies.

    • Modal@lemmy.sdf.org
      0·
      1 year ago

      It might depend on the definition but I’d probably expect engagement/total to play a bigger factor.

      As it is it weights very heavily towards evenness:
      A: (11, 10) = 21
      B: (99, 90) = 21

      They have the same ratio of votes but I’d expect B to be more controversial since more votes are tied up in the controversy / it got more attention. Maybe most people just don’t care about A so they didn’t bother to vote.