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**Meme:** Slowest Cheater in the East (SCITE) 

**Originator:** Mehrdad

**First Heard:** August 26th, 2009

**Definition:** A term borne of the protest incited when changes to the default sorting order of questions where instituted to compensate for the [disproportionate attention given late-arriving answers][1].

**Background**: On Auguest 26th, questions with the same vote rank were changed from a sort order of oldest-first to a random ordering. This change sparked a controversy among users who claimed that the change would encourage "strategic down-voting." 

From: [What has happened to the sorting of answers on stack overflow?][2]

> The new system creates plenty of
> horrible problems (the slowest cheater
> in the east (SCITE) problem) just to
> solve FGITW, which was not a big
> issue.
> 
> For instance, today, I answered a
> question and a virtually identical
> answer appeared 3 minutes later and
> got upvoted. In this specific case,
> the guy himself was nice enough to
> upvote me but I honestly don't think
> it's a good thing to post a dupe
> answer after 3 minutes and leave it
> there. -- Mehrdad


 [1]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19533#19533
 [2]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17624/what-has-happened-to-the-sorting-of-answers-on-stack-overflow/17772#17772