No, have a skim of the top-level comments on this post or others. It's not simple time-based ordering, popular comments get pushed to the top. Freshness is a fa

No, have a skim of the top-level comments on this post or others. It's not simple time-based ordering, popular comments get pushed to the top. Freshness is a factor, else all new comments would be near the bottom with un point, but as all things age it becomes nearly all score. The source for the forum used to be available in the Arc language tar file, perhaps it still is.