It's probably a default ordering or an ordering by an unshown database ID value. It's a small enough set that it doesn't really matter for practical purposes, but I guess it does betray a lack of attention to detail.

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wiredfool 2 days ago | parent [-]

It’s simple alphabetic.

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neogodless 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Is "slash" (/) before or after "space" ( ) ... or both... before and after it?

Is 8 before or after 4 in the alphabet?

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bena 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

No, there's no reasonable ordering going on.

If it were ordered by ordinal values, "/" is 47 and " " is 32, so "1 in" would come before "1/2 in".

It's not alphabetized by letter word. Because while "Eight" comes before "Four", "Specialty" would come before "Three".

No matter which way you attempt to order it, something is out of order.

Softtalker probably got it right. This is some default or id sort.

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VTimofeenko 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Before. _E_ight vs _F_our.

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superturkey650 2 days ago | parent [-]

But _T_wo is also before _F_our

	▲	VTimofeenko 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The sorting briefly switches to reverse order there, so no contradiction.

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antonvs 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

3/8 doesn’t come before 3/4 alphabetically.