On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:07 PM, David Bird <[email protected]> wrote:
> > PHP.net is FANTASTIC, so, thank you, repeatedly. But I wonder whether > anyone else is not happy with what the Vote up/Vote down feature does to > the > sort order of the user comments in the function area? It makes following a > thread difficult, and I don¹t see the merit in resorting the comments by > votes. Even if the feature is kept to indicate a level of perceived value, > perhaps the option to sort by Date Descending could be added? Regardless, > thank you again for PHP.net. -Dave > Right, as Dan Brown makes a good point about user notes never having been threaded in the first place I can still understand that some of these notes are being read and/or perceived as threads. I can also understand the frustration in the sorting. I've been getting a lot of negative input about the sorting lately so I'm going to make it a point to propose a change that will satisfy the status qua on both sides pretty soon. I just need to find the time to get it done. For one, user notes have very little value in being read as threads so sorting all notes by the date they were submitted is simply not taking the highest advantage of providing users who are browsing the manual and happen to be looking for useful user-contributed information as well (much of the useful information is pushed down to the bottom of the page as more and more clutter comes in). However, always sorting by the rating isn't the best idea either, apparently, since it's obvious notes aren't always getting rated fairly. Providing the user with an option of how to sort the notes is one proposed solution, but unfortunately that requires a bit of tinkering since the way it is now it wouldn't be trivial to implement as a feature and there's the consideration of the learning curve it imposes on the user. I'll definitely be revisiting this in the near future, however. I understand your concerns and you're not the only one to bring this to my attention. So I appreciate your input.
