I cannot tell you how much I disagree.
I want rank by reply-date. That, in itself, is (and was) a measure of popularity.
I want rank by reply-date. That, in itself, is (and was) a measure of popularity.
I can also remind the old forum rules like: "No useless posts. This includes: Necroing, Thread bumping, useless one liners, Flamewars, Trolling and Spamming."
The above is no longer an issue in the more modern forum ranking methods in combination with nesting. Its frankly just sub-par any way you slice it, since the new ways have the features of the old and add to it. There is no regression only progress, you could argue.
It’s much easier to have a few 100s of people commenting on various parts of the forum than a one single feed like HN.
You get to control the direction per your interests rather than being sprayed by an algorithm.