It could be I who is mis-impressioned. Here's a section of relevant site code. I'm fairly certain that I'm not hurting anything by showing it: 

  22: return  qq[<span class="other-users-text">Others ]
  23:        .qq[<span class="other-users-blurb">$blurb</span> the mon
+astery:</span> ] 
  24:        .htmlcode( 'get_picked_nodes', '', 
  25:                  type    => 'Users', 
  26:                  past    => $time,  # minutes!
  27:                  max_age => 2,      # minutes!
  28:                  choose  => $limit, 
  29:                  style   => 'nodelet');

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And following into the 'get_picked_nodes' code, I see that the order is fleshed out to be "Selected Users In descending order of XP" I learned something new about the site today. So your point seems valid; what caused the order to go funky? ...my money is on the gremlins.


Dave

In reply to Re^3: An interesting quirk of the new order? by davido
in thread An interesting quirk of the new order? by BrowserUk

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