Everyone was fine with chronological order.
I know I'm setting up a bit of a straw man here but my point is even chronological order can be exploited.
Especially as this thread has already mostly said spam filtering (which your example would easily trigger) isn’t in opposition towards a goal of neutral status.
The question is, how easy can it be?
The straw man, is indeed, that you can filter such, client- or server-side. If you see the same shit the whole time, you ignore it all. Easy; even IRC clients with scripting had such features in the 90s. Here is a list of techniques used in e-mail filtering [1]