How to remove recommend from threads?

After reading a few threads I was getting confused because the order of the posts didnt seem to make any sense.  Replys seemed to be out of context.
I took a second look at the thread, and it turns out that "recommended" replies are displayed BEFORE the regular numbered entries. For example you will see in a thread, recommended, recommended, #12, #13, #14 replies.  I would like to know if anyone has figured out how to just display the threads in posting order, without the recommended showing up first.