Re^11: Listing Best Replies First: destroys threads and annoys readers (casual readers)

Those people want best-first ordering

How do you know what we want? The whole point of this thread is that it's not what "we" want. We want to read threads as they were posted, rather than the jumbled results of a bogus popularity contest.

Comment on Re^11: Listing Best Replies First: destroys threads and annoys readers (casual readers)

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^12: Listing Best Replies First: destroys threads and annoys readers (casual readers) by jdporter (Paladin) on May 08, 2019 at 20:51 UTC
We want ... I'm pretty sure you don't speak for all visitors to the site. If you don't like the default, log in and set your own settings. I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.	[reply]
Re^13: Listing Best Replies First: destroys threads and annoys readers (casual readers) by LanX (Saint) on May 08, 2019 at 22:52 UTC
I think that's the first reply the OP got - chronologically speaking ;-) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}	[reply]
Re^12: Listing Best Replies First: destroys threads and annoys readers (casual readers) by LanX (Saint) on May 08, 2019 at 11:35 UTC
> How do you know what we want? well ... "Tends to be true of all public sites on the web." Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}	[reply]