I'm not sure I understand how the score-sorting gizmo works. Could some kind soul explain? Thanks!
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The score sorting gizmo... Hmmm... If you're looking at your list of comics and click on the 'Sort list by: Score' option, it'll sort your comics by score from highest to lowest; highest at the top.

If you want to look at all the comics, click the 'list comics' link on the front page. This will pull up a big list of all the comics sorted by date, most recent first. If you click the 'Sort list by: Score' it'll rearrange them by score with the _lowest_ score first. You can click sort by score again and it'll rearrange them with the highest score first.

Gabe

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The score sorting gizmo... Hmmm... If you're looking at your list of comics and click on the 'Sort list by: Score' option, it'll sort your comics by score from highest to lowest; highest at the top.

If you want to look at all the comics, click the 'list comics' link on the front page. This will pull up a big list of all the comics sorted by date, most recent first. If you click the 'Sort list by: Score' it'll rearrange them by score with the _lowest_ score first. You can click sort by score again and it'll rearrange them with the highest score first.

Gabe

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It seems to depend on whether you're looking at your own comics or the big comic list. The big list alternates bewteen a hi-lo, lo-hi score rank.

But the list of personal comics (as I think you mentioned) doesn't do that. I have no idea what the second scoring sort is, either.

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I've occasionally just hit it once and it sorts lowest to highest, and I've also just hit it once and it'll do highest to lowest. I think it's temperamental.

Here's what it looks like to me. When viewing comics only by a specific author, e.g. oneself, sort=score&o=1 puts the lowest-ranked comics at the top of the page, while sort=score&o=2 puts the lowest-ranked comics at the bottom of the page. However, if multiple comics have the same total number of points, then *both* sort orders put earlier comics (i.e. those with lower ID numbers) above later ones. This is why o=1 and o=2 might not look exactly the same. For example, as of just before I posted this, I have four recent comics with (I presume) 0 points. Those four will be the four at the top of my page when viewed in o=1, and the four at the bottom of my page when viewed in o=2, and in fact they'll be in the same order on both pages, i.e., chronological order.

As for whether the "score" link takes you to o=1 or o=2, I figure the PHP code just asks what "o" is currently set to, and then generates a link to the opposite. Therefore the explanation as to why you end up viewing the one you didn't expect probably has something to do with the path you took to get there.

I obviously don't have access to Johnny's code, so I could be wrong. But based on what I'm seeing, this is my guess.

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