It's nice that they explicitly state the meaning of the author-order. For a while, [StackExchange.Academia](https://academia.stackexchange.com/ https://academi

It's nice that they explicitly state the meaning of the author-order. For a while, [StackExchange.Academia](https://academia.stackexchange.com/ https://academia.stackexchange.com/) (like StackOverflow, but for questions about academic life) seemed to be getting a lot of questions about the meaning of author-order, where it seemed to vary across fields and even then be prone to subjective interpretation based on unstated rules. It was a very silly situation, made sillier by the fact that those doing it seemed to be under the misimpression that it was the serious, respectable way of conveying authors' relative contributions. Of course, their particular approach to doing this does leave open one potential avenue for confusion. In particular, are they doing this because: 1. they're researchers who want to stress that the name-ordering is arbitrary in a humorous way; or 2. they're hardcore rock-paper-scissors competitors who were primarily motivated by a desire to better advertise the results of their tournament? (Though, in the spirit of being clear-and-explicit, I'm just kidding about that last part!)