Controversial surfaces more trolls and low effort content to the top over universally well received replies. If everyone thinks something is valuable over something only some people think is valuable, people should see the former first by default. If we make a point of prioritising stuff that only ~50% of people like, we’re only going to alienate new users and ultimately stunt growth of the fediverse.
If anyone actually wants this, they can just change their user settings at the end of the day. New users should see uncontroversially well received content first.
Controversial surfaces more trolls and low effort content to the top over universally well received replies. If everyone thinks something is valuable over something only some people think is valuable, people should see the former first by default. If we make a point of prioritising stuff that only ~50% of people like, we’re only going to alienate new users and ultimately stunt growth of the fediverse.
If anyone actually wants this, they can just change their user settings at the end of the day. New users should see uncontroversially well received content first.