[SOLVED! A new POST counts as a new COMMENT. This is obviously not ideal.]

Just harvesting some new subs and find that the majority of subs are very low engagement, so I thought I'd turn on "Sort by New Comments" via Voyager to eliminate any posts with 0 comments.

But those zero-comment posts are still appearing. I don't think they have blocked comment because the comment count is zero...

Anyone have any insight?

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I don't use Voyager (nor Lemmy), but maybe it counts the post itself as a "comment" for the purpose of the ranking too? So if a post has no comments, it would use when it was created to determine its position.

Just by name, "Sort by New Comments" doesn't really imply that posts without comments wouldn't show up at all. It's a sort, not a filter.

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