In this post the mentioned bug was reported and it was suggested that this only affected smaller subs. This is definitely not the case. /v/technology is a very active sub, yet go check the hotlist:

• #6 +4, 5 days old
• #10 +4, month old
• #12 +3, 26 days old
• #87 +24, 18 hours old (that is the 12th post on the 3rd page, this submission)

The reason I'm resubmitting this is because I was able to get some degree of evidence of this destroying submissions. I made this submission which was more or less dead on arrival, sitting at +2 after 3 days. Yet simply mentioning that submission in another thread here resulted in a comment on +11 (and several upvotes for the submission as well) since that comment was made in a thread that actually managed to get sorted properly, somehow.

This bug is absolutely hurting the core functionality of Voat. @PuttItOut @Atko Until a fix can be created, I would make a suggestion of changing the default sorting algorithm to be top/1 day. It gives a far better representation of the site. On my front page with top/1 day, the final post is a 2.1 hour old post on +10. Sorted by 'hot', I have posts including a month old post on +8 and a 17 day old post on +4. I think this fix would go without a single complaint, and do nothing but improve Voat. As is the 'hot' sort order right now is misrepresenting the activity and breadth of content available here.