We just updated the system to allow you to set your default sort order.  Once you've set this, and are logged in, your sort preference will be the default.  To set your default sort order go to your My ACCCOUNT ---> account info page and choose your default sort order from within the Preferences box at the right of the page.

Thanks Hobobo ---- I'm going to put information about the rating display, and other information like this in the FAQ.  I also sent this user a note saying what you said.

I just tried to reset my default sort order per instructions

The form wanted my first and last names, which it should already have.

It wanted a required Job Title, which I don't have. So NA will have to do.

And, when I filled in the form and submitted it, it told me that my email address was already in use by another user when the email address submitted was the very one provided by the form and obtained directly from your user database.

To paraphrase the subject of this thred, WTF over?

The account page clearly thinks I'm a new user even though my user name is displayed prominantly at the top of the home page. So, I logged off and logged on again, same result.

How does one update ones sort order when one can't even update ones account info? Please help.

I'm really not sure what you mean.  Do you mean that you can't log into your account?  Because, once you get into your account there are no forms that need to be filled out.  You simply click on the 'Account Info' tab, and right below "Change Your Password" on the right side of the page you click the radio button that corresponds to your choice of sort order.

OK, lets be specific. The software for this forum is all hosed up.

1. This makes the 3rd posting in a row listed as being from me. The first one is, the last one is, the one in the middle is not. I'm not sure who the reply to my first posting is from but, it is not me. The tone of the reply makes it sound like it may be from a forum moderator, but I have my doubts.

2. I have been a member of this site for somewhere around 4 years, and the posting still has me listed as a stranger. For that matter, HoBobo Has been an active contributor to this site since before I joined and he is also listed as a stranger.

3. I really hate to be the bearer of bad news dude but the "Account Info" tab IS A FORM. By definition, any structure that contains fields that can display, add, or modify data and a submit button is a form. So, there are forms that need to be filled out once you get into your account. The "Display Info", "Account Info", "Add New Upload", and It Pays To Share Agreement" tabs are all forms.

4. On my Account Info tab, there are 3 fields tagged as "Required Fields". That means that unless those fields are filled in the Submit button will fail, and it does. There are 2 fields on the Tab/Form that are populated from your Database. Please don't tell me you don't have a Database. These 2 field are eMail Address and Country. These fields are populated correctly so the site knows who I am. When I fill in the required  fields and select my prefered sort order the submit button fails because my email address is already in use by another user. Remember, this is the same email address that the form obtained from my account information in your Database.

5. The form seems to be trying to create a new user rather than update an existing user. In its current condition it is impossible to select a perfered sort order, because it is impossible to update your account information.

Does that make what I mean a bit more clear?