Live Letter Q+A threads should be in random order

If the team ostensibly uses upvotes to decide what questions to ask, and only the first handful of pages get read by others, the system boils down to a first-comment race where a lot of very poor questions get 10-20 votes because five thousand more people saw it.

Combing the first five pages, I see maaaybe four questions that have any hope of yielding an informative answer. The rest are minor feature / glamour requests (there REALLY needs to be a better avenue for people to ask for these things, they shouldn't go unheard but it's a poor use of Q+A time), questions where the answer is already known or obvious, or blatant throwaways.

Yet these will all have way more votes than anything past page 20 at the end of the day, just because of the sheer number of eyeballs on them. Very few people are going to comb what will eventually be 40, 50 or more pages of this stuff.

Question selection for these things has always been mocked by the broader community, but it's no wonder when the format for collecting them is so clearly awful.