Assuming you weren’t commenting on it yourself.
I’m not sure but I will say it’s nice how often the top comments are pretty reasonable on here.
Upvotes/downvotes shouldn’t reflect how much you agree with the content. It should be a metric for whether it adds something of value to the fediverse.
Otherwise, default sort would just be an echo chamber.
I vote for visibility.
I agree with your highest upvoted comment
It was supposed to be that way on Reddit too, but everyone just treated them like like/dislike buttons instead.
That could be its own interesting question too; I imagine pragmatic case-use will differ with a significant portion of the userbase treating them as likes/dislikes.
I see waaaay too many doomer/surrender-in-advance type comments around here at the top.
Quite often, actually. It’s pretty comfy in here!
Not usually tbh, the top comment usually represents the majority opinion which i tend to disagree with
I used to default to relying on the top comments, but especially with platforms like Reddit having shills and other types of conversation dominating trolls, I try to scroll through the comments. It’s a lot easier to do on Lemmy.
Mixed bag. Depends on the instance and even then it’s a post by post in the different communities.
Depends on the community. Some it’s quite often, and others it’s not. I do like to hear variety in people’s thinking
Probably at least 10-15% of the time.
nevar.
Obviously dependent on the number of comments, let’s call that n. Maybe as often as n-0.6 in unemotional topics, and closer to n-1.5 for politics and current events. Comment score is a better predictor of comment age than comment quality.
At 9 comments in 2 hours, it’s already false in this thread.
Probably about 2/3rds of the time I most agree with the top comment.
For the record, this post was not one of those times
