Social comments integrated with dlang.org

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/29/12 4:09 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/29/2012 6:15 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> 5. Both have voting, and PHP sorts comments in decreasing order by
>> upvotes. Can
>> we also sort the same? Also, can we add some randomness (e.g. randomly
>> push one
>> of the comments in a top position) such that new good content has a
>> chance to be
>> upvoted?
>
> This is an interesting issue. I think an interesting metric would be a
> combination of number of votes which add to a ranking score, and age of
> the post which subtracts from it.
>
> Or maybe simply have a couple of buttons which change the sort order:
>
> 1. by vote
> 2. newest first
> 3. by karma of the poster
> 4. by number of posts by the poster
> 5. by a "house blend" of the above (!) If Sönke wants to get really
> creative, have an "equalizer" with four sliders to control the weight of
> 1..4.

I think this would be available in the homebrew thing but not on disqus.

Andrei