[daxfohl]

A nice feature would be to add a personal "bubble index", based on how much time users spend reading articles from "the other side". Some warning, "hey you live in a bubble, try reading this even if you disagree".

Also it would be nice to be able to rank articles by "least partisan".

Granted, I think the market for true nonpartisanship is pretty small. Kinda like health foods, where basically you just repackage sugary stuff with pictures of mountains on the box; with news you just have to convince the public that your extremely partisan corp is the balanced one.

[mrbodoia]

My intention was that the "best" sort would be equivalent to "least partisan". Under this ordering, posts which have strong support from all three user groups are ranked highest (specifically, it's ordered by log(left_votes) + log(right_votes) + log(other_votes)). But perhaps I should change the name from "best" to something that better conveys the lack of partisanship.

I like the idea of a bubble index. So maybe when you login, the landing page shows you the partisan distribution of the posts you've read/commented on/upvoted, and you can see for yourself how deep your bubble is.