I think maybe it would be better to just tweak the Hot algorithm slightly. Maybe either adjust the curve, or use max(age, 1 hour) in the calculation so that new content is not favored quite as hard, aka new content is scored as if it were an hour old.
But you could make a dedicated discussion post asking about this, so more people can see
I asked @dessalines@lemmy.ml about this as he is more familiar with the ranking algos:
Maybe not renaming active, but possibly renaming hot… but IMO they’re fine. Its just different from reddit, and more like the hackernews algorithm: join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html#hacker-news . It’s more new-focused to prevent the main problem of reddits which is rewarding first posts / comments, regardless of their quality
I think maybe it would be better to just tweak the Hot algorithm slightly. Maybe either adjust the curve, or use
max(age, 1 hour)in the calculation so that new content is not favored quite as hard, aka new content is scored as if it were an hour old.But you could make a dedicated discussion post asking about this, so more people can see
I asked @dessalines@lemmy.ml about this as he is more familiar with the ranking algos: