Announcement: We are trial-running sorting episode discussion posts by "New" for the next week

First things first: I have a feeling ya'll will be divided on this, and I'm not too sure myself how it will turn out, so this is just a trial run.I feel like episode discussions will benefit from users being able to discuss the show after the first hour it's up. Right now, the likelihood of receiving actual discussion when posting late in the episode discussion threads is very low. Often, unfortunately, you'll just post a comment and not see any replies.As such, we'll be trialing getting AutoMod to sort episode discussion threads - only episode ones, nothing else - by new automatically over the next week.I've gone with a week because I feel we have enough episodes during the course of one week to be able to tell if this is working or not.You can still set the sort by Top/Hot yourself when entering the thread, of course.The potential pros of this trial are:Episode threads stay alive for longerPeople will get more discussionUsers who aren't around at the time of posting will still be able to participateLess low effort comments (inspired partially by this meta-thread comment!)Less downvoting to get 'the top spot' (I've personally seen this happen SO many times)The potential cons of this trial are:Promotes more low effort comments a la FTFPeople less-likely to post long, well thought out (high effort) commentsMore spoilers may be presentThis was slightly inspired by /r/movies way of discussing new movies. It seems to work okay for them, however, I have noticed they don't have as many well written, long comments, and they obviously also have less discussions per. week than we do!The changes will be put into effect starting today. After the week is up I'll be creating a discussion thread here for everyone to post their thoughts on it. :) Nothing is set in stone and it's 100% fine if it doesn't work out/no one likes the changes. http://ift.tt/24o2o4T