# Sort topics (within category) in alphabetical order by default

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [18 فبراير 2015، 9:38ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-topics-within-category-in-alphabetical-order-by-default/25350 "2015-02-18T09:38:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [14 نوفمبر 2018، 8:38م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-topics-within-category-in-alphabetical-order-by-default/25350/8 "2018-11-14T20:38:24Z")

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It looks like this idea isn’t going to happen but just to share my use case - we have voting enabled for topics & want to enable users to vote for the stocks that they’d like us to add to our service so that they can invest in them (we’re a stockbroker).

The names of each topic within the dedicated category is the name of the stock.

Unless I’m missing something, it seems like the most useful way to order the list, within the category view, would be in alphabetical order, to make finding stocks that others have already requested easier.

I don’t think Tags would be right for this, as we’d only use each Tag once - one Tag for each of the stocks. And as we all know, a large proportion of users don’t use search.

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