"Sort by" is illogical

[Random01]

The filter has Ratings and downwards arrow. This logically should mean it gives the highest value first and goes down from there, but instead it gives the lowest score first. Same is true for views, comments and follows.

To fix this, the icons should be swapped around (downward arrow to upward arrow and vice versa.).

 

[Acolytus]

I make this mistake every single time I try to look for a bunch of series, so I'm glad I'm not the only one.

After fucking up so much, I came to the conclusion that that arrow is meant to by pyramid, meaning that the top represents the highest values and the base represents the lowest values, so a downwards pyramid would put the lowest values first.

That said, it's pretty confusing so I agree that swapping those symbols would be better, or at least I wouldn't fuck up every time if they were like that.

 

[Teasday]

For the nth time, the arrows are meant to reflect the arrows on the fontawesome icons which have ascending as pointing down and descending as pointing up because that makes fucking sense

That said there's since been an update that added inverted versions as well so maybe we'll fix them when somebody cares enough to do it

Yes I'm tired and frustrated

 

[Oeconomist]

The symbols aren't actually illogical; they simply follow a different convention. Perhaps a good case can be made that they should follow another convention, based upon what most readers expect.

 

[Oeconomist]

@AbyssalMonkey—

It's really not a matter of the English language at all, which doesn't itself have arrowhead symbols. And, with English spread across the world as it is, I would hesitate to assume that all nations in which English the dominant language also happen to have the same one convention prevail most often. We're really talking about whether numbers are somehow to be expected to read like those on a thermometer (or someuch) or

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I don't know where you live, but I find each order. It's a bit frustrating that one convention isn't universal, even with my nation, but that's just how it goes.

 

[Oeconomist]

@AbyssalMonkey—

Unfortunately, it is easy to find English-language directives painted on roadways that are intended to be read bottom-to-top.

Numbers are generally said to “rise”, “climb”, or “ascend” as they increase, though various sorts of visual information is numbered such that numbers increase as the information descends. To insist that the thermometer or the various graphs that we encounter in the news stick to the same convention because the numbers “ascend” as we move from bottom to top is to lose sight of what is actually ascending.

I confront dial-controls such that the numbers increase from bottom-to-top, and other dial controls such that the numbers increase from top-to-bottom.

I have no problem with the thought that some convention is more familiar to readers. But the convention is not a consequence of logic, not built into a language that does not have arrowheads, and not universal within those cultures that happen to be Anglophonic.