orderBy and ASC/DESC for replies under topic #35

I would like to sort replies. Great. The problem is that since the paging is done in the API, I can't sort them properly unless I get ALL the replies. I would like to see an orderBy parameter for the api paging so that I can do something like seeing the first 10 results for replies, sorted by (date, author name/id, reply id, reply to), ascending, descending.

Does that make sense?