I wish there were a way to search Sift Talk posts, since this has probably been addressed elsewhere, yet I can't seem to find the appropriate post (probably back during the 3.0 upgrade posts).

Anyway, my question is how the algorithm for sorting Unsifted videos according to the "Best Votes-to-View Ratio" works. I am curious because it's obviously not sorting the videos according to the listed number of votes-to-views ratio... is there a secondary number of "views" that are being used to calculate this ratio? Granted, newly posted videos with 1 vote and 0 views are appearing first (as they should), but for videos that have been unsifted for longer, there a lot that are out of order.

I'm guessing that some random factor was put into the algorithm to vary the lineup a little bit so there isn't an absolute "rich get richer while the poor get poorer" situation, but it seems to be working *too* well judging by the number of videos that are out of order, even beyond the first page.

Refreshing the page sometimes "solves" some unordered pairs, but then creates new ones. It can't be fully caused by other sifters either, since if you pick out 2 videos and note that their listed votes/views do not change between refreshes, the lesser one can appear before the other (and return back again on subsequent refreshes).

Thanks in advance!