in reply to Re^2: Random Order Replies
in thread Random Order Replies

If you have 3 votes left, and try to vote for 6 nodes in a thread, only the first three will be accepted - later nodes will get less votes because of this.
Then perhaps the solution isn't to display replies in a random order, but to if it's the case that you don't have enough votes left to cover what you want to vote for, that the votes are accepted randomly. Either that, or a message pops up saying "you tried to vote for too many. choose which you think are more important."

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Re^4: Random Order Replies (reversed)
by tye (Sage) on Apr 12, 2005 at 05:03 UTC

    I did better than that. Now, the last nodes will get the votes instead of the first. This somewhat balances out the bias toward "first post!" replies getting more votes (for being around longer and starting out being displayed such that they likely get read before other replies).

    I don't consider this bias for "first post!" replies to be a big enough "problem" to force random ordering upon people, though. I don't even see much point in providing a "random" option for reply display ordering, though others should feel free to write such, if they see enough point to it.

    - tye        

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Re^4: Random Order Replies
by ysth (Canon) on Apr 12, 2005 at 03:35 UTC
    That's actually quite a good idea.
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