This has been an issue since the beginning of Kbin tmk, but when you make a post, it won’t appear under sort by hot unless it has an upvote. This means that if someone forgets to upvote their own post, it just won’t appear on the default sort. There are plenty of posts I’ve missed because of this.

Any idea when something like this might be changed?

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    5 months ago

    i agree, i think your argument is ‘why arent my own posts automatically liked by me’

    call me a pedant but it hurts me to hear a category labeled hot, that has not had literally any user related activity. those 2 things are incompatible. just swap hot for new and call it day

    hot to me is an ‘activity over time’ metric, and zero doesnt play nice

    • ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.socialOP
      1·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, having posts automatically upvoted by OP would be great. I think that Lemmy automatically starts with an upvote count of 1 regardless of OP’s vote, so I think Kbin should do the same. I get that Hot is meant to factor in activity and time, but it just feels super off for the only post in the past month to not appear. Surely a post that was made an hour ago is hotter than a post was made weeks back.