rogerd - 12:44 am on Jul 15, 2004 (gmt 0)

Those of us that hang out here are used to reading posts with the oldest shown first. Quite a number of forums show the newest posts first, however.

I admit I'm partial to the oldest first, perhaps since that's a natural reading style. You certainly wouldn't want to read a novel or a textbook with the final paragraph first, then the second last one, etc.

Nevertheless, new-posts-on-top forums certainly have supporters. Can anyone make a good case for this based on usability or other factors?