[vestaviascott]

Originally Posted by Whiteknite

I am glad I was able to help you, vestaviascott. I don't know what version you're using, but I am using version 4.1.2 I think that version 4 is pretty much all the same.
Try going to MY SETTINGS -> GENERAL SETTINGS -> THREAD DISPLAY MODE -> LINEAR: OLDEST FIRST
That's how it is on my board.

Right, that's the user-defined setting for overidding the forum default setting.

What I'm trying to do, as the administrator and owner of the forum, is to set the default settings for ALL existing members.

Somehow, the default view for new members got set to "newest on top" and I have about 50 users on my pre-release setup that have this setting.

All my newly registered users have "newest at bottom", since I was able to change the forum default for new registrations once I found the the default was backwards.

I realize I could just send an email and tell them how to do it themselves, I just want to avoid the inevitable support issues it will create (and I don't like asking users to do something that I, as admin, could/should do myself).