Helmut
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Sort ascending / descending
* Out of idle interest:
* I have set my thread display mode to "newest first", ie postings are sorted in reverse order so the last / latest is always at the top.
* As a daily (generally) visitor to the forum I roughly know what the progress in any recent thread has been and would consider it a useless waste of time to scroll to the bottom to find the last comment.
* Strangely, even some power-users refer to "above" or similar, indicating that they sort mails in descending order by date & time.
* What (if anything) is the benefit of a normal ascending sort in questions? I am, of course, perfectly aware that newbies will want to start out with the normal sort (which I assume to be the default, anyway).
* Out of idle interest:
* I have set my thread display mode to "newest first", ie postings are sorted in reverse order so the last / latest is always at the top.
* As a daily (generally) visitor to the forum I roughly know what the progress in any recent thread has been and would consider it a useless waste of time to scroll to the bottom to find the last comment.
* Strangely, even some power-users refer to "above" or similar, indicating that they sort mails in descending order by date & time.
* What (if anything) is the benefit of a normal ascending sort in questions? I am, of course, perfectly aware that newbies will want to start out with the normal sort (which I assume to be the default, anyway).