Comment by dredmorbius

Interesting. Some of this fits in with my "non-brief moderation thoughts" essay: https://redd.it/28jfk4/

In particular: no content-ranking system is perfect. Some level of random ordering (within a range) is probably actually preferable.

Also, Aon on randomness:

"When your reasons are worse than useless, sometimes the most rational choice is a random stab in the dark" http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/is-the-most-rational-choi...