Threaded commenting: how to show threads by last active first?

Simply go to Settings > Discussion > Other comment settings > then look for the pull-down menu that will let you reverse the order.

As per this video:

https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/New-comments-first.webm

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