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@shrdlu: Dagnabbit. Happening in both FF 3.5.5 and IE 7 on Windows XP Professional.

@anotherhiggins: It also works (for me) on Vista and Firefox (I didn't try Vista and IE, since the Vista machine is used for some other things, and the IE isn't patched).

Having absolutely no feel for your tech knowledge, please forgive these suggestions (in no particular order, even though I know they're numbered).

1- consider rebooting a computer, after clearing the cache on your browsers
2- if you are browsing from work (I know, I know) check your settings to see if your local administrator has changed anything
3- When you say you tried both browsers, I expect that was the same machine. Can you use a different machine to test your account?
4- Log all the way out of Woot (different solution than rebooting), close your browsers, count to 10, open them, and log back in.

@anotherhiggins: I'm hoping you see this in the next few. I'd love it if you'd make a quick account on woot, flush the browser and its danged cookies, get out of the browser, get back in, log in with the new account, and see if the problem's still there. I still haven't tried with any apple products (I have four browsers on my mac laptop), but I think it's something else going on.

It's very odd that (so far) it seems to affect just you, hence my request for a new account for you.

@anotherhiggins: There is one other, odd, possibility. Please note that your account is back up to 100/100. This is a variable that will not be there when you create your new account, and I am stating this now so that I don't forget it. You are the ONLY person, EVER, that I have seen on Deals that has 100/100. Many of us have it at our reputation at the top of the page, but not as a poster (I understand that they are computed differently).

Although this is completely grasping at straws, it is the only unusual thing about you or your account that I can think of.

@shrdlu: Well, I guess it's time to grasp at straws.... But not that one, apparently.

I've once again cleared all cookies, cache, etc. from fire fox, created a new account and tried again.

I even logged in with the new account on Safari and Chrome, both of which I just downloaded to this computer for the first time, and I still get the same results.

I'm starting to wonder if I'm just doing something embarrassingly stupid.

Here's a screenshot of what I'm seeing. You can see that I have Votes selected but the posts are not sorted by votes. This screenshot was taken while logged into a brand new account on Safari:

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/8947/dealswootexample2009120.png

@anotherhiggins: Dammit. Hobbit's right. I misread what you were saying, and it IS a bug. We wasted all sorts of precious time working at odds on the problem. Newest (in the post) works. Oldest (in the post) works. Votes USED to work (as in, if you clicked on Votes, it sorted comments from high to low. I can't say when it stopped working, but I'm going to repost this question, so that it will get attention (because I'm sure that the age on it is getting on, and they've got a 24 hour window, and then it will be gone, baby, gone).

Don't you repost it, because it runs the potential of being deleted as a duplicate (they've got at least one overactive moderator).

@anotherhiggins: Screen shot would have done it instantly. Good catch, by the way. I was using this a bunch during the Beta test (for my own nefarious purposes, or else to see who other people thought made the most sense, where a thread had many comments).

It used to work, and now it's busted.

Go vote up the other question, so it'll hit popular. See you over in the other question (thanks @hobbit).

Thanks to everyone for finding this... should be working now.