Does the "rising" page on reddit actually work? On subreddits with millions of subscribers it seems to show one or two submissions, at best, and often the votes cast on those submissions don't reveal why they're considered to be rising. For example, many submissions on the rising page have scores, using the format (upvotes,downvotes), of (1,0) or (1,1)
Yes. Remember, it is a function of both votes and views, so something with two votes that's only been viewed a few times will still be higher than something with more views and two votes.
It's not perfect, but it is better than just straight chronological.
Is this the intended behavior?