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In the movie industry, directors sometimes sign their as "Alan Smithee" to indicate they don't recognize the movie as their own work.
This can happen for various reasons, one well known example is David Lynch for Dune (1984) who didn't want his name associated with the movie since he didn't have the final cut.

Is there an equivalent for the software industry to indicate one wants to distance themself from a commit or a project they don't approve?

I'm currently working on a little web app that allows the user to sort a list of elements (like a tier-list maker).

Instead of just asking the user to sort the list through drag'n drop, I thought I could run a sorting algorithm that would ask the user every time it needs to make a comparison.

The whole thing would feel a bit magic, since you would have several questions like "Which one do you prefer, A or B?" and get your sorted list.

The question is: which algorithm should I use to keep the user entertained? I don't want to compare A with everything, then B with everything and so on with something like a Bubble Sort, that would be boring.

What do you think about it? Please be aware this is not a big project, just something I make out of curiosity. Thanks in advance!

Edit:
As an example, let's say I want to sort fruits by personal preference.
I have a list [Apple, Banana, Coconut, Durian, Eggplant, Fig, Grape] but no algorithm can tell if I prefer an apple or a banana so it needs to ask me.
What would be the questions an algorithm needs to ask me in order to sort the list of fruits for me?
The idea behind it is not to sort stuff but to spark discussion during the "comparison" step ("Ok, why do you prefer bananas to apples?"), that's why I need successive comparisons to be different, so it keeps the users' interest.

When I search for anything on Google or DuckDuckGo, more than half of the results are useless AI generated articles.

Those articles are generated to get in the first results of requests, since the search engine use algorithms to index websites and pages.

If we manually curate "good" websites (newspapers, forums, encyclopedias, anything that can be considered a good source) and only index their contents, would it be possible to create a good ol'fashioned search engine? Does it already exist?

The movie Toy Story needed top-computers in 1995 to render every frame and that took a lot of time (800000 machine-hours according to Wikipedia).

Could it be possible to render it in real time with modern (2025) GPUs on a single home computer?