in reply to Random Order Replies

I don't care about the voting. I appreciate being able to skim a discussion and find things in the same order each time. I use this both in going back to threads and skimming to see if someone said something new (I don't always keep track of everything), and also in trying to locate a particular comment in a thread (I have a sense of what followed what, and therefore about where I'll find what I'm looking for).

I'd be very unhappy if a misguided attempt to improve something that I don't care about ruined something that I do care about.

Please leave alone the order that posts appear in in a thread.

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^2: Random Order Replies
by gam3 (Curate) on Apr 12, 2005 at 15:05 UTC
    How about reverse chronological order.

    This would make it easier to see what's new, and everything is still in an order. This would get rid of the insentive to post early (even if wrong), and the long well thought out posts should end up closer to the top of the page.

    -- gam3
    A picture is worth a thousand words, but takes 200K.