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I like it the way it is now, to be honest. Although chronological order has its advantages, I find that sorting by ratings stacks up and looks nice .

But really, it's not a huge deal for me.

By rating (as it is now)	6	[18.75%]
In chronological order (newest top o/t list)	17	[53.13%]
In alphabetical order

We have three options: by ratings, chronological and alphabetical order. This can be widened in many ways:

1) by ratings:
    1a)by ratings, and similar star numbers reviews chronologically
    1b)by ratings, and similar star numbers reviews alphabetically
    1c)by ratings, and similar star numbers reviews chronologically - when an album was issued.  If reviewer rated 2 albums of Hatfield & the North, three by Iron Maiden, and twenty-two by Jethro Tull, I would really like to see that Tull's albums in chronological order - not starting with "A" or "A Little Light Music".

2) in chronological order (of writing a review)
    2a) oldest first
    2b) oldest last

3) alphabetically
    3a) alphabetically, and all albums of the band chronologically (see 1c)
    3b) alphabetically, and all albums of the band alphabetically
    3c) alphabetically, and all albums of the band by ratings within,

4) by popularity order (our algorithm)
    -it would be interesting to see how a reviewers opinion correlate with overall ratings

5) random
    - for fun, and for learning something new about a random artist/album

6) by country, damn!
    If you are Spanish, and you want to see how some of your fellow countryman forum member rated the albums that you are both familiar with - regardless of alphabetising or rating.

7) all the possible combinations and permutations of aforementioned plus any other that you can imagine

So much for the possibilities. But which one should be the default one? That is the question, right?

Here's the answer:

Settings / Member Control Panel Menu / Edit Profile!

Every member will be available to tick a little box with a corresponding option that suits him/her the most. After setting the parameter, all the reviews of all the reviewers will appear just as member wants. Problem solved!!!

By rating, as it is now, because I think my first reviews under the name Barla are the least understandable. Also, the very very first reviews I made for this website were under the name Martín (my real name) and are like 10, but very crappy ones.

I voted for the way it is now, but I think alphabetical order is pointless. If you really want to see if someone reviewed an album, you can just Ctrl + F.

When the reviews are listed by rating, would it be possible to change the order that the albums of the same rating are listed?  When I look at a list of somebody's reviews, I see all of the five star albums at the top, but the order of these five star albums seems completely random to me.  They aren't alphabetical or chronological.  Personally, I think it would look best if they were sorted alphabetically after they are sorted by ranking.  At least that way all of the five star Yes albums will be grouped together, etc.

It's fine how it is.

As it is now is absoliuely fine, and it looks better.

I like this option:

I would go with Clarke2001 3a) proposal : the best way to get quickly to an album you want to have the reviewer's opinion on.