When they added this feature there had been a lot of talk in the forum about people voting for the first few answers and ignoring the rest. Some thought that a "Random Sort for Fairness" was a good solution, but others wanted to see which answer was first because some people initially give some quick answer in order to be one of the first answerers, and then later modify it to include some of the best ideas of the people who answer later.
But they are not listing the answers in random order. The answers are given in the order that someone first answered and the sort by date feature does not give the date last edited, but merely reverses the order so that the date sort is just a toggle switch-switching to the date the last answer was given.
Another problem is that the sort by rating is not fair to the last answerers because there are fewer rates given for answers that were given later on.
I just wondered if anyone is paying any attention to these new features.
2006-10-12
12:58:40
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Susie
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