[yifanl]

For some subreddits, the up/down point system can be pretty useful, there will some substantial comments that genuinely have better (or at least more) content than other comments.

But for the majority of subreddits, I have it sorted by newest comment first. I don't understand why social media sites today are moving away from that, 99% of high-scoring user-curated content just means it's a particularly popular or inciteful comment.

It doesn't promote good discourse if out of 10 comments, the one that naturally floats to the top is the most inciteful one.

[InitialLastName]

> I don't understand why social media sites today are moving away from that

They don't want you to know when to stop looking. If they present feeds "newest first", you can move on as soon as you get to an item you've already seen. With a "curated" ordering, you never know when you'll see new content, so you keep scrolling (and thus providing them your interest data and looking at ads).

[mateo411]

>inciteful

This is a very interesting word. I think you mean insightful, which is what people usually use to describe a clever or novel thought.

I've never seen the word inciteful before, but that would probably mean something that really riles people up and makes them angry. After rereading your last sentence, it seems like you actually meant inciteful, but it's not a word that's used very often.