Comment sorting a mystery

March 21, 2006 5:43 AM

What's going on here with how my comments are sorted?

It looks like they're being sorted by comment date DESC, except that the three latest comments are not quite right.
posted by disillusioned to Bugs at 5:43 AM (4 comments total)

Note that I'm ridiculously tired, and haven't taken into account that the page might be cached, that the page might be sorting properly, and I just cannot read, or that I am completely insane.

Feel free to chastize, flag and subsequently close thread as necessary.

Not at all a big deal; I'm just curious.
posted by disillusioned at 5:44 AM on March 21, 2006

I think they're sorted by thread number DESC and then date ASC.
posted by cillit bang at 5:57 AM on March 21, 2006

cillit's got it. It's the same way all thread lists and comment lists are. Lists of threads are in reverse-chronological order, and then inside each thread, the list of comments is in forward-chronological order.
posted by Plutor at 6:23 AM on March 21, 2006

It is working as expected.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 7:05 AM on March 21, 2006