diff --git a/app/logical/post_query_builder.rb b/app/logical/post_query_builder.rb
index d93bb3883..e4247b5a5 100644
--- a/app/logical/post_query_builder.rb
+++ b/app/logical/post_query_builder.rb
@@ -231,9 +231,6 @@ class PostQueryBuilder
 
 	  when "rank"
 	    relation = relation.order("log(3, posts.score) + (extract(epoch from posts.created_at) - extract(epoch from timestamp '2005-05-24')) / 45000 DESC")
-	  
-	  when nil
-      relation = relation.order("posts.id DESC")
 
     else
       relation = relation.where("false")