From 0708a6d665ef81700ac61c32f1c3710db9493108 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dessalines Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 14:18:40 -0500 Subject: Adding a sorting help. Fixes #532 --- docs/src/about_guide.md | 12 ++++++++++++ docs/src/about_ranking.md | 2 +- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/src/about_guide.md b/docs/src/about_guide.md index f22e201b..16788ab9 100644 --- a/docs/src/about_guide.md +++ b/docs/src/about_guide.md @@ -6,6 +6,18 @@ Start typing... - `#a_community` to get a list of communities. - `:emoji` to get a list of emojis. +## Sorting + +*Applies to both posts and comments* + +Type | Description +--- | --- +Hot | Shows *trending* posts, based on the score, and the most recent comment time. +New | Newest posts. +Top | Shows the highest scoring posts in the given time frame. + +For more detail, check the [Post and Comment Ranking details](about_ranking.md). + ## Markdown Guide Type | Or | … to Get diff --git a/docs/src/about_ranking.md b/docs/src/about_ranking.md index 361dc24d..d318ae82 100644 --- a/docs/src/about_ranking.md +++ b/docs/src/about_ranking.md @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Score = Upvotes - Downvotes Time = time since submission (in hours) Gravity = Decay gravity, 1.8 is default ``` - +- For posts, in order to bring up active posts, it uses the latest comment time (limited to a max creation age of a month ago) - Use Max(1, score) to make sure all comments are affected by time decay. - Add 3 to the score, so that everything that has less than 3 downvotes will seem new. Otherwise all new comments would stay at zero, near the bottom. - The sign and abs of the score are necessary for dealing with the log of negative scores. -- cgit v1.2.3