# Admin setting for activity default sort order for Discourse Post Voting plugin

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-for-activity-default-sort-order-for-discourse-post-voting-plugin/375869
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** post-voting
**Created:** [July 25, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-for-activity-default-sort-order-for-discourse-post-voting-plugin/375869 "2025-07-25T19:33:00Z")
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### Author: ![patrickemin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/patrickemin/32/520162_2.png) [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-for-activity-default-sort-order-for-discourse-post-voting-plugin/375869/1 "2025-07-25T19:33:00Z")

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About this Plugin:

> [@Discourse Post Voting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808):
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> discourse2Summary Discourse Post Voting allows the creation of topics with votable posts.open_bookInstall Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately. Features To create a new topic with votable posts open the menu in the top left of the composer and select ‘Toggle Post Voting’: With the topic in Post Voting mode, there’s a filter to sort answers by votes or by activity. Here’s an example …

I wish to have an admin setting to set the default answers sort order to “Activity” (chronological order), by default it is set to “Votes” which is not natural for forums users. Thanks.

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