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.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>

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