"Who posted" information - how are posters' names arranged?

A completely minor and irrelevant issue that has piqued my curiosity:

If you click on the number of replies against a thread, you get a list of all those who have posted to the thread. Posters are listed according to the total number of posts they have made to that thread: those with only one post at the bottom, then those with two posts higher up the list, then those with three etc…

But within the group of those who have made only (say) one post, how are the posters’ names arranged? It’s not alphabetically. Is it just a random arrangement?

The order they made their posts in, maybe?

No, I’ve just had a look at a couple of threads and that doesn’t seem to be the pattern.

I have never ever clicked on that before. Interesting.

It is not the order they posted in that thread, nor does it seem to be by total posts, or even their join date.

By the poster’s IQ, lowest to highest.

Me, neither – that’s kinda cool!

So are there more Easter eggs in this system :confused:

Sorry for being dense, but where are you guys clicking?

:smack:

Found it. Move along, nothing to see here.

It’s not an easter egg: when you’re looking at a page of threads, between “last post” and “views” you see the number of replies. Click on that number and you see the list the OP is talking about.

No, it’s penis length/breast size.

Ascending or descending?

First sort is by # of posts to the thread, after that . . . not sure.

Not ID# or join date or alpha. Hmm.

So far as I can tell, and this is after just a couple a quick checks, it’s based on last board activity with the most recent at the bottom. ( From least to most recent.)

I should have known that was wrong!

My penis is ascending at the moment.

Why do you ask?

Actually I’m rather pleased that you’re baffled too TubaDiva. I thought there might have been an obvious pattern that I just wasn’t seeing.

Could it have something to do with time logged in to the board?

Hmm. The list put me ahead of Can I Change My Answer? but behind everybody else. I rarely log off although I did recently dump cookies and had to log in again, say, two weeks ago. When did everybody else log in last?

It may just be whatever order the database returns them in. I’m kinda surprised that’s not by user ID, but I’m not really familiar with the guts of MySQL, so I don’t really have any basis for that surprise.