When answers have the same number of votes, and the view is set to 'most voted', what is the secondary sort order? It looks like newest first, but I prefer oldest first.

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And someone else might prefer newest first :)

(02 Jul '10, 13:23) Hernani Cerq... ♦♦

I prefer it be randomized upon view, since that means the best answer will bubble to the top, and none has an unfair advantage (except the older one slightly, since it is seen by more people overall). However, this will mess with the caching.

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answered 02 Jul '10, 14:49

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Why would it mess with caching?

(02 Jul '10, 15:06) Hernani Cerq... ♦♦

If everytime a new user sees a different order? I guess you could cache the answers (and avoid the DB hit). I was thinking about caching the entire page, but I guess that's overkill.

(02 Jul '10, 16:41) Joseph

The items are cached individually, but the actual listing (just the ids) are retrieved every time.

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