diff --git a/app/controllers/projects/commits_controller.rb b/app/controllers/projects/commits_controller.rb
index 0a85c36a758267114228f99b3dc1c12536a8a521..b133afe44b577416b0b71a5417ff6135ebf3c73e 100644
--- a/app/controllers/projects/commits_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/projects/commits_controller.rb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ class Projects::CommitsController < Projects::ApplicationController
 
     @commits = @repo.commits(@ref, @path, @limit, @offset)
     @note_counts = Note.where(commit_id: @commits.map(&:id)).
-        group(:commit_id).count
+      group(:commit_id).count
 
     respond_to do |format|
       format.html
diff --git a/app/controllers/projects/labels_controller.rb b/app/controllers/projects/labels_controller.rb
index 6c7bde9c5d5544dac846842f48a3e5c26429379c..b61fef3b6276421dd2d5b61dbd4cd7ed0fd8f881 100644
--- a/app/controllers/projects/labels_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/projects/labels_controller.rb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ class Projects::LabelsController < Projects::ApplicationController
   respond_to :js, :html
 
   def index
-    @labels = @project.labels.order_by_name.page(params[:page]).per(20)
+    @labels = @project.labels.page(params[:page]).per(20)
   end
 
   def new
diff --git a/app/controllers/projects/merge_requests_controller.rb b/app/controllers/projects/merge_requests_controller.rb
index 912f9eb5b6b0be6e5fa920208860073ecb18e2fc..01be318ede21f22e157e652bcd65423cee8d697b 100644
--- a/app/controllers/projects/merge_requests_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/projects/merge_requests_controller.rb
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class Projects::MergeRequestsController < Projects::ApplicationController
 
   def show
     @note_counts = Note.where(commit_id: @merge_request.commits.map(&:id)).
-        group(:commit_id).count
+      group(:commit_id).count
 
     respond_to do |format|
       format.html
diff --git a/app/finders/notes_finder.rb b/app/finders/notes_finder.rb
index 6fe15b410605a93fdb836edb08512f36b0b15d84..e2bd0a2560e57c5d08a0d6c665253152b755c89f 100644
--- a/app/finders/notes_finder.rb
+++ b/app/finders/notes_finder.rb
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ class NotesFinder
       end
 
     # Use overlapping intervals to avoid worrying about race conditions
-    notes.where('updated_at > ?', last_fetched_at - FETCH_OVERLAP)
+    notes.where('updated_at > ?', last_fetched_at - FETCH_OVERLAP).
+      order(created_at: :asc, id: :asc)
   end
 end
diff --git a/app/models/label.rb b/app/models/label.rb
index c8f6a7cd48c4ca42a4c3189486aa11c12578ebeb..9d7099c5652db38d914eae00a3e5823a37813f28 100644
--- a/app/models/label.rb
+++ b/app/models/label.rb
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@
 #
 
 class Label < ActiveRecord::Base
-  include Sortable
-
   DEFAULT_COLOR = '#428BCA'
 
   belongs_to :project
@@ -30,7 +28,7 @@ class Label < ActiveRecord::Base
             format: { with: /\A[^&\?,&]+\z/ },
             uniqueness: { scope: :project_id }
 
-  scope :order_by_name, -> { reorder("labels.title ASC") }
+  default_scope { order(title: :asc) }
 
   alias_attribute :name, :title
 
diff --git a/app/models/note.rb b/app/models/note.rb
index a3f2980cebd236c585c180a46fa8091d67ca42d2..0b988cc3e0f409d63e240ae0beb3a7ac1b694d8e 100644
--- a/app/models/note.rb
+++ b/app/models/note.rb
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ require 'file_size_validator'
 class Note < ActiveRecord::Base
   include Mentionable
 
-  default_scope { order(created_at: :asc, id: :asc) }
   default_value_for :system, false
 
   attr_mentionable :note
diff --git a/app/views/shared/_issuable_filter.html.haml b/app/views/shared/_issuable_filter.html.haml
index 4f683258facdfa6e94e208e15ef24a8f8c4e270d..cd97481bb6ce24a9c2ce70d7616ca9a0224b4024 100644
--- a/app/views/shared/_issuable_filter.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/shared/_issuable_filter.html.haml
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
           = link_to page_filter_path(label_name: nil) do
             Any
         - if @project.labels.any?
-          - @project.labels.order_by_name.each do |label|
+          - @project.labels.each do |label|
             %li
               = link_to page_filter_path(label_name: label.name) do
                 = render_colored_label(label)