>is this really that big of a problem? (My 2nd reply) Yes apparently it is, I feel fairly sure now. Search this page for "Search engines have to solve this pr

>is this really that big of a problem? (My 2nd reply) Yes apparently it is, I feel fairly sure now. Search this page for "Search engines have to solve this problem". — They have the same problem, and "have" to solve it. So I think it does matter fairly much. (Much enough to be worth solving :-)) And read this article from Reddit: http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-system.html?m=1 http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-s... It's about an even worse version of the problem, when one uses a naive (but prevalent!) approach to comment sorting. Anyway it exemplifies how comments posted later on has no chance to reach the top of the page, no matter how useful/interesting they are.