Edoc

Except, a machine CAN be truly random if you use something from outside the machine as a seed for the equation: http://www.random.org/randomness/

For instance, Grumpy could capture your mouse placement over the random button on the time of the click, do a modulus of which pixel you were on with the current Unix time and get a truly random number.

That ISN'T how he does it, but it was an example.

 

As for whether or not it's a "useful" enough feature, that has to be decided by Grumpy as stated before.

That still won't be truly random (and anyway it uses external influence) all you are doing is feeding more information to the seed for the algorithm, of course it won't be possible for a human to predict the result, but it still won't be absolute random... anyway I only mention it because people are talking about how excluding a genre would make it not truly random, but whenever the option gets implemented the randomness of the button won't change a bit.

Back on topic, it IS a useful feature, and without it the random button is but a decoration for many of us since we get a shoujo every 7 out of 10 times.. now of course, whenever it is enough to get accepted, yes, it is up to him.

it makes it no longer a real random button.

Well, if we go there.. then the random button is not random since machines can't actually be random, is just an acceptable mathematic imitation

Just because you remove some options does not make it less random, in fact what it does make is a more usefull option

Well, I would also like it, in fact I would love an exclude for the mainpage too.. too many shoujos...

The search function can't be random because it orders the stuff, while the random is as random as a program can get.. just let us remove some variables, the same way you can decide to use a 6 sides dice instead of a 12 one.

Man, I really wish I'd called this topic something else.  Couldn't think of a better/more descriptive title at the time, but seriously.

 

@Edoc: Genre filtering would also work, if the Genres are consistent from comic to comic.  I have no idea if they are or not.

Yeah, but I was thinking on filtering out the thousands of shoujos that spam the main page every day

mix this with something like to filter out entire genres in the homepage and it would be just perfect.