IDEA 8: SteemPeak can allow a community admin to set the default comment sorting.

As far as I know this couldn't really be a community wide setting just a front end thing
But we're trying to think of ways to get people to where the action is the quickest so it's something to think about.

Also maybe the solution is to make comment sorting option more evident and faster.
Which means maybe take it out of the drop down and display all the buttons.
It's not a huge difference but it is 2-3x faster and 10x more in your face.