Hmm well let's see..
If you go into your user cp and then edit options, you have four options.
Linear - oldest first
Linear - newest first
Hybrid
Threaded
So user's can set that option if they wished.
You wanting to basically have a box you can check when your creating a thread or editting one that if checked would override a user's individual settings and define the thread to list in linear - newest first order?
The only thing that concerns me is some of those users that like hybrids might get annoyed with their preferences being taken over