| > Are any major sites using this method, or at least providing a way to combine sort with a filter items with under X ratings 1. Reddit's default sorting algorithm was (and perhaps still is) based on this 2. Google's internal Q&A tool, Dory[1], used it to rank questions to ask to the leadership during the "open" mic sessions. NOTE: please don't do the same mistake. The math of the algorithm ensures that controversial questions never get asked, since the algorithm approximated the upvotes/downvotes ratio, not votes/views ratio. The latter was not used because, IIRC, counting impressions on an internal site was too "technically challenging". This, in my opinion, defies the entire point of an internal Q&A, which is to address hot topics before they spill out and become an issue. (I don't think I'm spilling any tea talking about how Q&A in Google was run five years ago; there's no secret sauce there. It was natural to ask "which questions make it to the top", and the answer was the link to the article we're discussing. Google considered it to be fair). [1] https://support.google.com/dory/answer/9254865?hl=en |