I asked the exact same question....well, different wording....about a week ago. A few people posted that the time that shows is Pacific time, no matter what our time zone is, but this still doesn't address the issue of posted in order written. I see that The Spears gave an answer. To me, this is TOTALLY STUPID! If there is a "discussion" going on within the answers (and there OFTEN is), then messing with the order will destroy the logic of the discussion. ALSO, if I just post, why does my answer jump up several places immediately - NOBODY has had time to vote my post up or down, so unless there are a whole lotta down voted posts which are "in the negative" and I immediately go above them, it makes no sense, and I seriously doubt this.

Hope they get this back to "the old way"!!!!

*edit - just saw where this post went to the top of the ones with no votes and the two above me had one upvote each. STILL think it's a dumb way to sort!!

** double edit - I gave myself an Upvote and the Spears one as well. They moved to the top, and now I'm right below them.

Again, to try to "follow" the thread, this is just goofy!

Susan, I don't think you're missing anything.  They tinkered with the display for answers in one of the recent AR updates.  Those with the most Upvotes go to the top of the thread, so it's no longer about chronology.

I think now you can.

I think it has something to do with the upvotes.  It's confusing,  I used to "like" answers but haven't "upvoted"  anything yet.

Also, there used to be #'s on the comments so at least you can see the order.

Matt Holder a lot of this depends on type of question. Many of the questions (including ones I've asked) are conversational in nature and the answer developed.  For example, I asked a q about marketing to realtors and several agents made suggestions, and then I asked them more about those ideas and started to develop those ideas.  Likewise, people have asked q's where I answered and they had several follow up q's. 

It was better to be able to follow the string of answers and have the ability to sort by best answers.  but for some q's "best answer" may not be relevant as it's a series of connected thoughts.

Hi Susan Haughton - We acqknowledge your frustration and are planning improvements to make it easier to follow conversations within Q&A since the main purpose of this page is to help people find answers to the question asked. Conversations don't always contribute to that goal, so we're trying to find the balance.

The Q&A section is fairly new so we're learning everyday ways to make the system better.

Kris Neese personally, I liked it better before - sorted by order of answer and then ability to sort by most thumbs up.  If you can't do that, then at least allow us to sort.  This makes it very confusing and this has been asked many times on here.

Also, very few are even upvoting, so not sure that we really are getting the best answers first anyway.

Also, there needs to be some way to sort through q's. I keep seeing the same q's come up again and again and it seems like a waste...and it's kind of annoying.

Hi Susan -- good question and I agree!   Life and AR don't need to be complicated -- K.I.S.S.

I do not like it either. I wish they have the order it just like in the blogs.

Just trying to follow THIS thread with this being only the eighth answer, is insane.....

Susan, I really don't like to be negative about AR, but yeah, that's kind of what I'm feeling right now with some of the changes.  The most votes, the most likes, we're equating popularity/traffic with quality, and often it seems to me popularity has little to do with value or quality.

Susan Haughton I wish I knew- I think it is the way the system is set up. 

That is so weird. It looks like they eliminated that option.  We used to have a window where you could sort in different ways.

Kris Neese is there a way to add that back?

I think the option was added later on.

I don't think it's possible.

Liz and Bill nailed this one!

Kris Neese ,

the 'best and popular answer' is not always the best answer. Please add more filters. It is more important to see recent comments. I haven't find a member yet, who liked 'upvote' suggestion.

We are all missing filters.

AR please add filters everywhere.

I often try to research a topic and it is so annoying that there is no way to filter by date. I click a lot of old blogs with outdated information before finding anything if ever, more recent.

It's not you. AR now makes it so the most popular answers are moved towards the top. They are all out of order and it doesn't make any sense that it should be done this way. This system makes it impossible to follow a good conversation that gets started.