I need advise on comments - Newer or Older first

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I've had my comment settings set at Older first for a very long time. Today, I thought that might be a bad idea because to get to the newest I have to scroll down to get there and it can take ages when you've tons of comments.

My question is: Is it better to have Older or Newer at the top?

Let me know what you think....

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Newer first but sometimes some of our older posts can be amazing as well :) be nice if you could number them and then put them in any order you wanted depending on the time of year, season etc.

Newer on the top, I think this would be normal, just like posts in the blog roll.

Good point there thx :)

Newer first enhances the currency of content and so empowers it further.

Newer works most efficiently.

Thank you, seems like everyone agrees on newer :)

I think is better for you to gave the newest first

Thank you :)

I would suggest the newer at the top because they are more relevant to where you are and what you are doing NOW!!!

Thank you Paul :)

You are welcome

New ones first so you can answer back immediately

Thank you, it seems everyone prefers newer :)

I´d say newest on top. And now I´ll check how mine are as I don´t really know.
BTW, how do we change from newer to older or from older to newer?

To change this go to settings-->discussion-->other comment settings (second section down) and then at the end of that section there is the option to show oldest or newest comments first. I am pretty sure it defaults to oldest first

Thanks much, Tanja. It now shows the newest first.
And WP does indeed default the oldest first.

Glad you got it figured out.

Thank you, hope you got sorted

I prefer newest first because to me it shows how relevant the article is. Some articles don't have a date on them but a way to tell how old or new it is, is by looking at the dates on the comments (assuming there are some).

But I don't think it matters from a ranking perspective.

Seems like everyone's agrees to newer, thank you :)

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