Sun, 04 Nov 2018 13:47:22 -0800 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.9 & Feed Publisher http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/353/answers-are-sorted-by-reputation-big-list/?Focus=4805#Comment_4805 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/353/answers-are-sorted-by-reputation-big-list/?Focus=4805#Comment_4805 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:06:04 -0700 jonas http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/353/answers-are-sorted-by-reputation-big-list/?Focus=4804#Comment_4804 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/353/answers-are-sorted-by-reputation-big-list/?Focus=4804#Comment_4804 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:55:54 -0700 Kevin Lin You can already do this. Notice the "oldest" and "newest" tabs (next to the "votes" tab) right above where the answers start.

]]> http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/353/answers-are-sorted-by-reputation-big-list/?Focus=4803#Comment_4803 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/353/answers-are-sorted-by-reputation-big-list/?Focus=4803#Comment_4803 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:42:15 -0700 jonas
It, however, doesn't work well for open-ended big list questions. It's not easy to follow new answers to such a question once you've read the thread, because they don't appear at the end of the list. After a while, what starts to happen is that people only read the first few pages of answers, and new answers aren't seen because they start out near the last page (because they have zero rep).

I'm not sure I know a good solution for this, but you could at least try sorting big list questions by post time, earliest first.

Update: of course, early answers are _always_ favoured to get more rep, no matter the ordering of the answers, because many people will only read a question once, vote on the answers, and never come back. At least that's what happens on perlmonks, it might be different here. Still, ordering by time makes this worse because it's much harder to find new answers. ]]>