I know people like to set everything to new and just leave it at that. Especially when you just got out of an algorithm abusive environment on major social media platforms.
For me, I changed to using the "hot" sorting method rather then the new and active sorting methods. Granted I started out with the "new".
Heres why I went from new to hot.
Some new posts don't get comments. There are sometimes duplicate posts that do get comments that are talking about the same topic.
What hot setting does is essentially, keep newer posts that are active with comments active. Score has an impact, but as a post itself get older itself then others will rise despite how high the score was or comment amount. Making this I think my current preferred.
In other words hot is a slight modification to active setting. Active doesn't factor the date of the post with scaling, and it even I think beats the algorithms since I know how it's working and that it might not change behind my back (looking at you Youtube.).
Last remarks: What are your favorite setting and/or perspectives on post sorting?
When communities just started growing rapidly a year ago, I sorted by Top 6 Hours because there wasn’t enough content yet. Now I do Hot and Scaled because there’s a lot more activity.