Sam Crawley

Just a guess, but could it be that #3131 fixed the issue with the initial hot_rank value for posts that are synced, but didn't fix it for posts that were...

Yes, it seems to affect smaller servers more than larger ones. e.g. this looks fine on lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/c/linuxmemes?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=Hot but on a smaller server, older posts are ranked high: https://lemmy.nz/c/[email protected]?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=Hot

Yes, we've seen something similar on our instance. The log lines for the initial hot rank update does appear. It seems like initially after restart there are no "stale" posts...

Here's what I believe is happening: - Older posts (older than 1 day) get synced to an instance, e.g. when a user from that instance views them (and they are...

Does #3618 actually fix the underlying issue? It seems like it just adds a published date to the aggregates table, so it will address the issue mentioned by @dessalines. But...

As I understand it, there are two scenarios for vote count count abuse: 1. A post is made on a community hosted on a legitimate server. A malicious server sends...