"Highest Rated" innacurate
https://community.intersystems.com/?filter=highest_rated
The top post has one 5-star vote. I know there are posts with more.
It should be sorted by rating then vote count. Perhaps it's just sorted by rating so all 5's get equal rank?
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The overwhelming consensus a few weeks back was to have the home page ordered by the latest posts, then posts with the latest comments, DESC. The filters are just doing filtering, not altering the sorting. The "Highest Rated" filter is those postings that are at least 4/5 stars. We might revisit this to make the filtering options sort differently.
The next build has a new filter for "Unanswered" which shows all questions that haven't been answered. Each posting in the list will show the rating plus the number of comments and if it's a question, how many answers have been provided.
I see. I think revisiting sorting would be a good idea.
How are you going to filter "answered" questions when there is no answer mechanic? A reply does not an answer make...
The post detail page is completely redesigned with comments only when it's an "article" and when it's a "question" there can be zero or more "answers" plus the question itself and any of the answers can also be commented on individually.
Sneak preview (not finalized GUI but functioning). Two images so a little misaligned.
IMVHO, threading is useful, very useful, even in such micro-context as discussion after proposed answer in the StackOverflow [as you introduce in this newer change].
Once you killed threading, you could easily introduce unnecessary confusion of participants, for which it's becoming harder to comment on the relevant comment.
- Hope threading will not be killed in the "Article" mode;
- Hope threading will be added later to the Q&A mode, because it will simplify discussion.
No, IIRC, consensus was about slight different formula - sorting by Max(PostDate, LastCommentDate) DESC which is quite different to "ordered by the latest posts, then posts with the latest comments, DESC".
Even very old post after new comment should go to the top of list for Newest filtering mode. If it's hard to implement such Max aggregation function in Drupal then I'd try to directly update post date/time on each new comment...
Though, returning to the original topic, about "Highest Rating" flter, it would be highly unexpected to see it keeping Newest order, expectations are that it would return in ranking order (inside of which, for equal rankings it might sort by modification time).