I suspect the meaning is obvious and I’m just being a silly goose, but I’ve just been sort of bouncing around among them, since I’m not quite sure of the difference.
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- Active: popular recent posts that people still engage in by posting comments
- Hot: popular recent posts but cares more about rating than comments
- Top X: Top rated posts in the last X hours/days
Active: Ranks on votes and comment activity, with the time of the last comment being an important factor.
Hot: Ranks on votes and comments, but just uses the timestamp of the post without the comments time affecting it.
Top: Just the highest score of the selected time period.
New Comments: (my favorite) is like an old forum, where the top post is the one that received the newest comment.