[wp-testers] Threaded comments order all wrong

[Ryan Boren]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Ajay D'Souza <ajaydsouza at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I posted this in the support forum, but no reply there, hence the email out
> here, since I believe it is a bug.
>
> I'm not sure if anyone has noticed this, but here's what happens:
>
> I have set threaded comments to upto level 5 to be displayed on the blog.
> After level 5, the user can no longer reply to the comments as the reply
> button is greyed out.
>
> However, WordPress admin allows you to reply to this comment and at times I
> have replied from there past the five levels.
>
> Now, the display of threaded comments is all wrong on the blog. These get
> displayed to the very end of the comments list and new comments are added
> above them, making it rather confusing for anyone reading the comments.
>
> Additionally, people can continue to add replies to them and these aren't
> threaded.
>
> Any solutions?

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8841

No patch yet.