Quote from: LoyceV on August 20, 2019, 09:11:46 AM

Quote from: Pmalek on August 20, 2019, 08:29:33 AM

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.

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So if your account is older than mine but we send the same amount of merits for the same post, your name would appear before before mine every time?

Correct

Quote from: akhjob on August 20, 2019, 08:55:25 AM

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: So the order is (all in descending)
1. Number of merits
2. Activity
3. User ID (oldest user first)

theymos has confirmed this to be the order

Quote from: theymos on August 20, 2019, 05:16:44 PM

Quote from: Foxpup on August 20, 2019, 03:46:15 PM

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.