Questions tagged [answer-order]
Posts about the order in which answers appear below a question (from highest to lowest score by default, with accepted answers pinned to the top on some sites).
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UpDown buttons cover the text in answer ordering combobox
On mobile devices (e.g. iPad) UpDown buttons cover the text in answer ordering combobox: It seems that such buttons could be painlessly removed at all on touchscreen devices.
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Accepting an answer still pushes it towards the top of the list of answers [duplicate]
It has been brought to my attention that, on sites where the Would you like to have the accepted answer unpinned on your site? got applied, accepting an answer does push the answer towards the top of ...
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-20 votes
1 answer
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Active/Oldest/Votes showing with just one answer
This SO question: Is this "elision failure" language-mandated? currently has one answer (by @NicolBolas). But above that answer and to the right I see a selection box with three buttons: "...
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1 vote
1 answer
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Why doesn't Stack Overflow sort by votes anymore? [duplicate]
Within the last week or so, I noticed Stack Overflow no longer sorts by number of votes. Aside from the answer with the most votes, which does seem to come first, the rest of the answers seem to be in ...
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3 votes
0 answers
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Why are heavily-downvoted accepted answers still listed first? [duplicate]
The answer that sparked the question is this one where the answerer provided a completely wrong answer to the question and was consequently heavily downvoted. However, the answer seems to have ...
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2 votes
1 answer
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Accepted answer on very popular question not in the first place [duplicate]
On this very popular question on Unix.SE: Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30?, the answer by Marnanel Thurman (with approximately 1.6k votes) shows before the accepted answer (...
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7 votes
1 answer
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Would encouraging votes on new answers improve chronology independence?
Chronology Independence is a concept I'm introducing related to the correlation between answer popularity and the order and gaps in time between answer submittals. Imagine three nominees for the ...
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1 vote
1 answer
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Order of answers [duplicate]
How is the ordering of answers done? in this question, there are 2 answers as I am writing this question. This answer having 40 votes is not on the top instead another answer having less votes. How ...
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0 votes
0 answers
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Accepted Answer Below Other Question? [duplicate]
I was looking at this question, and noticed that: The accepted answer was below another answer. It's not like the other answer had more votes, it had the same amount of votes. The accepted answer is ...
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2 votes
0 answers
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Create a new answer order that considers vote count, how old it is, and answer count [duplicate]
This proposal tries to solve How can we make good answers to old questions float to the top? If a new answer to an old question with lots of answers gets a few upvotes, it is a strong indicator that ...
8 votes
0 answers
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How many votes and flags are cast by users preferring particular answer order (active / oldest / votes)?
Answers sort order "sticks", meaning that system stores it somehow, so that it is possible to get statistics related to its usage. I would like to know how many (percentage) of votes and flags are ...
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-3 votes
1 answer
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New vote orderings- default vote order is wrong [duplicate]
I've just noticed that the ordering of answers on questions has changed. Apparently you can now order answers by various criteria, which is fine. But who the hell set "Active" as the default? It ...
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12 votes
0 answers
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How many users have changed their default Sort By?
I am interested in knowing how many users on Programming Puzzles and Code Golf change their default sorting preferences for answers. More specifically, I want to know what those sorting preferences ...
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0 votes
1 answer
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Self-accepted answer vs non-accepted answers with same vote count: not ordered randomly on some browsers [duplicate]
[EDIT2] Something is wrong with answer ordering: different versions of Chrome (under different environnments) show different behaviour. Noticed here: How to debug IE9 HTA? WinXP(VM) and Win7, Chrome ...
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0 votes
0 answers
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Encourage users to update accepted answers when significantly outscored [duplicate]
Stack overflow is about getting high quality answers quickly. The way that answers are sorted is intended to help realize that goal. However, occasionally low quality answers find themselves on the ...
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