# I can't tell what order are messages pending approval are displayed in
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-tell-what-order-are-messages-pending-approval-are-displayed-in/32885
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [September 3, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-tell-what-order-are-messages-pending-approval-are-displayed-in/32885 "2015-09-03T20:08:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-tell-what-order-are-messages-pending-approval-are-displayed-in/32885/1 "2015-09-03T20:08:22Z")
I have a number of messages pending in our forum. The number went up, so I scrolled to the bottom & didn’t see it.
I see it’s interspersed.. what order should they be in?
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-tell-what-order-are-messages-pending-approval-are-displayed-in/32885/2 "2015-09-12T16:13:25Z")
ok - I have a new pending message in our forum, and I can’t find it in the list.
can we get this sorted by newest first/last?
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-tell-what-order-are-messages-pending-approval-are-displayed-in/32885/3 "2015-09-18T17:12:28Z")
It should definitely be sorted by when the post was created. Here’s a fix:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e7af8d22399b3c53e998d9d29d75852840731b49](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e7af8d22399b3c53e998d9d29d75852840731b49)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-tell-what-order-are-messages-pending-approval-are-displayed-in/32885/4 "2015-09-18T19:40:02Z")