# Is there a YouTube setting to sort comments chronologically?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 19, 2018, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-youtube-setting-to-sort-comments-chronologically/824779 "2018-11-19T10:20:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-youtube-setting-to-sort-comments-chronologically/824779/1 "2018-11-19T10:20:39Z")

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YouTube defaults to showing comments sorted by “top comments”. Is there a setting somewhere that lets you change your personal default to either chronological or reverse chronological, so you don’t have to find the little menu-thingie and change it on each screen for each video?

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-youtube-setting-to-sort-comments-chronologically/824779/2 "2018-11-19T11:13:11Z")

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As I understand it, the default’s a setting that the video _uploader_ specifies, I don’t think you can change it for yourself - at least, there doesn’t seem to be any easy way. I have heard of 3rd party sites that may let you do that, but not sure of names.