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What is the 'lottery' button for?

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While browsing through different sites I notices the 'Lottery' button in the header of the Posts pages. It shows next to 'Activity', 'Age', and 'Score', so it is indeed a way to order the questions.

The name seems quite straight forward, so I assume it is a kind of 'show me the list of questions randomly', but I just wanted to make sure since I could not find any documentation about it.

Also, what is the number as alt text that shows when hovering? It seems to match the number of questions in the specific category. In any case, I think an improved version could be in a form of:

List the (X) questions randomly.

(I wonder if something like [faq] questions could be included, so documentation keeps being created by users themselves)

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"Lottery" is a random set of 50 questions. It's a way to be reminded of older posts that have dropped off the front page. I agree with the suggestion that "Random" would be a better label; we didn't think of it at the time for some reason.

I also agree that the tooltips could be more informative. Thanks for pointing it out.

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fedorqui‭ wrote over 3 years ago · edited over 3 years ago
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Excellent, thanks Monica. I like the idea, in my life I have spent hours jumping from a random Wikipedia article to another through their 'random' link and I am sure doing this in Codidact will be fun as well. Maybe in the future some conditioms can be added, sich as questions with a certain score, number or answers and things like that

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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@fedorqui‭ there might actually be some low-level conditions; not sure. The tooltip reports the same number for all buttons, though, so maybe not. I would have to ask the developer or try to find it in the code. Maybe in the future we could improve it, yes. We're also working on a design for user filters, so you could describe what you want to see yourself, and if we do that then I'd probably keep the "random" list simple.

fedorqui‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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I see in the code there is some setting that disqualifies a question to show in the Lottery list: LotteryAgeDeprecationSpeed: The relative speed at which questions age out..., used in the sorting. So there is some heuristic there.