Top to bottom. I like when tops get on my bottom.

I have to read everything in chronological order. Comments here, comments to an NYT article, Yelp and Amazon reviews, etc. Always.

Agnostic.com seems to randomize them, so by reading them from the top down your still reading them in a random order

Read top down - sometimes back up to review.

As noted by others, I like to read from the top down, but from the oldest to newest, so I use the tab at the top to switch to oldest first. Many of the comments generate replies, and even some of the newer comments are responses to earlier comments. I follow the discussion much better from beginning to end.

I like to reply before being corrupted by other's comments

None of the above, technically. I click on the button that says "^ Oldest" and then read from the top down, in chronological order. The default is newest first, and reading from the bottom up just doesn't feel natural.

I start top down, but later on might try bottom up for something different.

I start at the top and work my way down, just like Trump!

I've been reading bottom up to stay with order commented, but I never noticed the buttons JimG mentioned. Thanks @JimG

Always top down, but I sort them into the order I want to read them depending on my mood.

Top down. I know it is backwards, but that is the nature of my life. If l know my reply is different than anyone else's l may not read any depending on the subject. If it is a serious subject l scroll to see if someone else says it better than l could or just to make sure l am not duplicating someone else. Damn, I've really managed to make this complicated.

Perhaps there should be a way of reversing the order. @Admin ?