i thought a paper pairplane was for sharing. the plus sign isnt weird to me

I’m not from reddit but I have thoughts nonetheless.

if you get attention to your thread via some ”easy” method like having the most recent reply, this attracts stealth abuse. troublemakers can try to use plausible replies to push up what they want to fill the top, and push down everything else. i want to emphasize that you cannot really notice or be sure when this goes on.

therefore, it’s important that popular clients don’t make anything like that the default. upvotes is much harder to game. recent post (but not replies) is okay because people making too many dumb posts is obvious and they can be blocked (etc.). most replies is fine since it takes lots of different people. even some combination (weighted upvotes, weighted downvotes, weighted total replies) could be nice.

instances could take how their ”front page” / default sort works very seriously because it ends up shaping what users see and interact with the most.

how to format links properly that people can actually follow in their clients? I’ve noticed threads where there are many, many, many different ways of attemtping to link to a community. many dont work when clicked on or arent clickable properly. end up having to open a browser or the client doesnt know what to do with it