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>"You keep using the word random. I don't think you know what it means, as the ordering is not random." The word "random" has more than one meaning. I'm using
by LukasMathis 16y ago
>"You keep using the word random. I don't think you know what it means, as the ordering is not random."
The word "random" has more than one meaning. I'm using it in the colloquial sense of lacking context or being unexpected. I obviously don't mean that there is a random number generator switching up the position of the entries. Instead, I mean that to the user, the order is unpredictable or unexpected.
As for the rest of your comment, I would like to remind you that you are arguing for a user interface that replaces a benign default action with a destructive default action. It is, of course, possible that I am the only person who was affected by this. It's just not very likely. Simply asserting—without evidence—that most people won't encounter the problem is not a useful response when somebody points out a problem.
And again, I very much doubt that buying the book is the most commonly used action in that list, since, as I've pointed out, you can't actually see the price of the book when you're in that menu. Again, I acknowledge that I might theoretically be in the minority, but I tend to not buy things when I don't know how much they cost, and I suspect that most people behave similarly.