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What are your ideas for a controversial sorting algorithm for Lemmy? (github.com)
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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

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[–] Nythos@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Having a sort by controversial would do nothing but breed vitriol.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something is controversial if there is a variety of opinions. You can use the variance to quantity that. In this case, it's just upvotes and downvotes so maybe there's a simpler way to calculate variance for that case.

[–] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Controversiality = upvotes / total votes?