# What determines the order of frequent poster icons in the topic list?

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**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [2016年五月23日 13:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-determines-the-order-of-frequent-poster-icons-in-the-topic-list/44669 "2016-05-23T13:20:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![woosting](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/woosting/32/78134_2.png) [@woosting](https://meta.discourse.org/u/woosting)\
**Post date:** [2016年五月25日 14:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-determines-the-order-of-frequent-poster-icons-in-the-topic-list/44669/8 "2016-05-25T14:46:22Z")

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Hmmm… If one looks at the [Api documentation topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-documentation/22706/1) none of the explanations seem to map onto it (or I am overlooking something):

**Topic overview:**  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/3/43abd0f6bf6716c2be148f0c2c60b48eca83986e.png)

**Banner (within topic):**  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/9/5909a7bfb47aeeebaf5c14a900b34b09d293becd.png)

**Post order:** both when I start from the beginning and reverse from the end; I can not seem to reverse-engineer it to any of the explanations (not even when grouping by amounts of post and chronologically ordering them within those groups).

Am I overlooking something? Is anyone able map his/her explanation on that (or another) existing topic, in order to enlighten me?

The first/far-left (OP) and last/far-right (LP) ones are clear, but the three in the middle are not. They _are usually_ the top posters, but esp. the presentation-order still confuses me (I do not seem to recognize a chronological order, nor a descending based on their relative amount of post).

e.g. - the [Api documentation topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-documentation/22706/1) - how come [pjv](https://meta.discourse.org/users/pjv/activity) is preferred over [Jared\_Needell](https://meta.discourse.org/users/jared_needell/activity) in that case?

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