The current sorting priority is:
2. Oldest account first
I don't think this should change.
Why is the creation date of the bitcointalk account an important factor?
So if your account is older than mine but we send the same amount of merits for the same post, your name would appear before before mine every time?
No. By "oldest account first", LoyceV tried to mean the account which merited the post first followed by the subsequent accounts meriting the same amount of merits.
@iasenko, I don't think this feature is required for everyone. Maybe a select few like the merit sources need them. I think a userscript/addon is all that is required here if you are not comfortable with ctrl+f. Why don't you try posting your request
here?