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Not really but kinda. Depends on how you sort the feed. There's new comments / active / most comments (and maybe scaled?) which factor in number of comments but if you don't sort by that then number of comments doesn't affect it in the feed. Also, someone who comments a lot of nonsense is probably going to get blocked, down voted, reported / banned or their posts removed.
There's also top hour/the/12hr/day/week/month/year, controversial, new, etc. which won't factor comments in.
I didn't even think about how you browse the feed effecting it but that makes sense.
And yeah I could definitely see someone getting banned or whatnot for being excessive.
I was mainly curious to see if there aren't any small ways to try to boost interaction on a post. I'm not tryna spam stuff though if my post fails it fails ๐คทโโ๏ธ
If you go on the web ui and look where the sort option is, there's a little ?. Click it and it will explain the sorting options.
Many instances use Active as the default, which is based on latest comment. However, it's also based on the score, so if you are spamming or people don't like your post you'll get down voted (or no one will upvote) and then it won't hit the front page even when sorted by Active.
That makes sense. I typically just try to interact with anyone who comments on a post of mine hoping it might lead to more interaction.
Personally I don't really care about the upvotes or whatnot I'm more worried about active interactions and hearing people's thoughts on things and stuff like that.
Personally, I sort by new - no bumps for you!
It does if you sort posts by "New Comments" so it works like an old forum system (such as PHPbb). All new posts will be at the top, and all new replies will push it to the top again.
What stops people manipulating their posts are rules against spam, automation against spam, and the fact most people just stick with the default sorting option that goes entirely by a different metric.
Are there any non spammy ways to boost interaction? I'm not trying to be excessive or anything just want to know if there's any little details I can use that wouldn't be considered spam or punishable.
I find a good title and finding the right /c/ommunity to post in weigh heaviest on how well a post does.
That's fair. Maybe I'm just not meant to be a memelord ๐
Looks like most of your posts have a few hundred votes. That's about as much as we see around these parts. It rare for a post to break 1k
That's true. I suppose I'm just comparing my best posts to my worst and wondering if it's something I'm not doing right ๐
I think it depends on how you sort the feed
as well as what @jjagaimo@lemmy.ca said, there is also a scaled weight based on time since activity that is applied to hot/scaled sorting that allows things to bubble to the top but to slowly sink as they get older
Yeah I've noticed on my top posts they'll usually only receive interaction for about 2-3 days and I assumed that's the general time limit for a post to be moved higher in the feed.