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Topic: @theymos, how the names in the merited posts are sorted? (Read 176 times)

legendary
Activity: 2212
Merit: 3148
₿uy / $ell ..oeleo ;(
Thank you guys for the quick response now everything is clear and the case is closed. I am locking this thread, cheers Smiley
administrator
Activity: 5222
Merit: 13032
Pretty sure it's first by merit awarded for that post (obviously), then by activity.

Right. And in case of equal activity, member ID is the tiebreaker.
legendary
Activity: 4326
Merit: 3041
Vile Vixen and Miss Bitcointalk 2021-2023
Pretty sure it's first by merit awarded for that post (obviously), then by activity.
legendary
Activity: 2212
Merit: 3148
₿uy / $ell ..oeleo ;(
Now there is a discussion on who the names of the guys who merit a post are sorted.

Hope you can reveal the mystery.

Why is the creation date of the bitcointalk account an important factor?
I don't think it's important, it's probably an arbitrary choice. Trust settings uses the same order. From a programmer's perspective it makes sense to just sort the (user) numbers.

By "oldest account first", LoyceV tried to mean the account which merited the post first followed by the subsequent accounts meriting the same amount of merits.
No, that's not what I meant. It's also not how it's sorted.

I guess then your facts are wrong atleast for this post - Jammu & Kashmir Special Status (Article 370) Ends!!




As you can see, both nutildah and Totscha have given 2 merits each to the post.

nutildah is a legendary member and registered on April 19, 2014. He merited the said post on Aug 7, 2019  07:07:08 AM


Totscha is a hero member but registered on Sep 12, 2013. He merited the said post on Aug 7, 2019 07:10:40 AM

Of the two, Totscha's account is the oldest. If its sorted by oldest first, Totscha's name should be shown before nutildah. But thats not the case here. So I think it's sorted based on the time of giving merit.

Edit: not sure how it's sorted, maybe DdmrDdmr will update here



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