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George Lowther comments on "Question buried deep" (19086)

George Lowther — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:07:18 -0700

Felix: Your statement about active being the rightmost button confused me for a moment. You must be viewing via the "questions" link (http://mathoverflow.net/questions) rather than the main page (http://mathoverflow.net/) which has active as the leftmost tab, featured next, and all tabs are further left than on the questions page.

bsteinberg comments on "Question buried deep" (19085)

bsteinberg — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:00:38 -0700

Clearly a feature. Active is for things that are still active (have new edits, answers, etc.). Newest is for, well, newest.

Felix Goldbeg comments on "Question buried deep" (19084)

Felix Goldbeg — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:58:11 -0700

I only use 'newest' because on the relatively small laptop screen I am using most of the time, 'active' is not visible at all, being the rightmost button. I only found out about 'active's existence recently.

So, is 'newest' sort order being independent of edits a bug or a feature?

geraldedgar comments on "Question buried deep" (19083)

geraldedgar — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:01:34 -0700

OK now I found "Newest". I never use that. It seems these are ordered by when the question was asked, and later activity does not change that.

geraldedgar comments on "Question buried deep" (19082)

geraldedgar — Fri, 18 May 2012 05:59:34 -0700

for me, you question is number 6 in "Active", "Recent Questions". I do not see anything called "Newest"...

Felix Goldbeg comments on "Question buried deep" (19081)

Felix Goldbeg — Fri, 18 May 2012 05:43:15 -0700

But not on the 'newest' list. Does this mean that edits do not affect the order of the 'newest' list?

Henry Cohn comments on "Question buried deep" (19080)

Henry Cohn — Fri, 18 May 2012 05:05:34 -0700

It is now on the "featured questions" list (the second tab), and the edit also seems to have moved it up in the list of active questions.

Felix Goldbeg comments on "Question buried deep" (19079)

Felix Goldbeg — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:54:49 -0700

Hello,

I just added a (small) bounty to one of my questions (http://mathoverflow.net/questions/96983/almost-bipartite-nearly-isolated-subgraphs). Now, I was under the impression that doing so would pop it up in the chronological list of questions. This didn't happen, so I edited it, but nothing happened - it's still buried deep below.

Since the whole point of adding a bounty was to get more attention more the question, I wonder: how to get it to the top of the list, for a while?

What am I missing?

Thanks!