[SOLVED! A new POST counts as a new COMMENT. This is obviously not ideal.]

Just harvesting some new subs and find that the majority of subs are very low engagement, so I thought I’d turn on “Sort by New Comments” via Voyager to eliminate any posts with 0 comments.

But those zero-comment posts are still appearing. I don’t think they have blocked comment because the comment count is zero…

Anyone have any insight?

Edit:

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      2·
      22 hours ago

      My experience is “active” is weighted with too long a time horizon and is mostly worthless to me. A single thread with 100 responses will shoot to the top of “active” even if no one has posted for 2 days.

      The nice balance I’ve found is “scaled” which seems to weight recency of posts and not so much on the quantity. I’ve set my Lemmy preference to default to “scaled”.

      “New” is also fine, but that sorting will likely only have low engagement because the posts are so new.

  • CTDummy@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    I’ve definitely had it on voyager on specific instance, the new feed will be fine and then I’ll come across a months old post and then it be back to the other hour old posts. In my case though it’s the same month old post each time. Sort by new sorts by post time I thought but could be wrong.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksOP
      2·
      1 day ago

      There’s “Sort by New” which only considered post time, and there’s a separate “Sort by New Comments” which considers the time the last comment was posted (and also the original post time, unfortunately).

  • Pamasich@kbin.earth
    1·
    1 day ago

    I don’t use Voyager (nor Lemmy), but maybe it counts the post itself as a “comment” for the purpose of the ranking too? So if a post has no comments, it would use when it was created to determine its position.

    Just by name, “Sort by New Comments” doesn’t really imply that posts without comments wouldn’t show up at all. It’s a sort, not a filter.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      1 day ago

      Oh, that would explain the behavior, but would also reflect some poor naming if posts count as comments.

      Edit: Yup. That’s what it is.