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I totally missed this post until Parizad replied to it, dunno how, but I backed up to the original post so I could ask this question myself:
I'm assuming you're saying MF got the 'shaft' because it's a lesser populated city. If your theory is true, then please explain to me how EAST JEROME, an equally unpopulated city, ended up at the top of the list and AV and BF, cities known to be the most populated, were more toward the middle than the top? If you're not saying MF was shafted due to low population, then I don't understand how you feel they got shafted, or for what reason you think they were 'deliberately shafted'. Care to explain WHY you think the way you do?
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As you yourself just pointed out, Parizad has since explained how the cities were chosen, it may well be that after reading that response, Dutch's opinion has changed. I don't see any reason why she should now be asked to explain her original way of thinking or called out over it, when she may very well have changed her mind since making the original post.
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But that's not the first time I've read that the process of selection was totally randomized, so I know it was said before.....which stands to reason that since Dutch is around as much as I am, she also should have remembered hearing that when it was originally said, although Parizad's step-by-step account was more detailed than the original explanation. I'll have to go back and find Lee's post, but I believe he said something like "we used a highly sophisticated algorhythm to determine the order they'd be merged (meaning we pulled the names out of a hat and wrote them down in that order)" or something to that effect. I'll see if I can dig up that post, but I KNOW I'd seen the random drawing-out-of a hat reference before by one of the dev team not long ago. I'll post the link when/if I can find it.