Re: User comments on php.net/manual/: date sort order descending?

I'm not a follower of the comments generally, but I would believe that deletion of them is the last thing we want to happen. On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Vlad Krupin wrote: > couple reasons not to change that: > - if a post has survived for such a long time, it's probably valuable. > If not, it needs to be deleted rather than moved to the bottom of the > pile. Also, if it's good, it should probably be added to documentation > (and if it's at the top, it'll keep bugging developers to do just that - > I think that's a bonus) > - a lot of posts say something like 'In addition to the previous > post...' or 'the previous post is wrong - someone, delete it! The right > code snippet is...' - it would be extra confusing to reverse the order now. > > Vlad > > Björn Schotte wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >just digged through some user comments in the manual which are sorted > >date ascending, i.e. oldest posts (from 1999 or 2000) are first. Wouldn't > >it be better to sort date descending? There are plenty of issues from > >1999/2000 which are already solved in newer PHP versions and I think it > >irritate users less if they read the newest comments first. > > > > > > > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------< Dan Kalowsky "I'll walk a thousand miles just http://www.deadmime.org/~dank to slip this skin." dank-nom@aps-deadmime.org - "Streets of Philadelphia", kalowsky@php.net Bruce Springsteen