Easy thread monitoring, without throwaway comments?

March 17, 2006 9:46 AM

Whatever happened to the idea that soon we'd be able to flag a thread as "watch," so that one doesn't have to post some crappy comment just to ensure the thread appears in one's "My Comments" list? There are many threads I wish to monitor, and few I wish to actually comment upon.
posted by five fresh fish to Feature Requests at 9:46 AM (11 comments total)

Mathowie said pretty recently that he had something in testing and was planning on rolling it out Really Soon Now™
posted by Plutor at 9:49 AM on March 17, 2006

Aha. Last Sunday, he said: "I hope to roll out favorites this week (showing posts and comments, not just their IDs) and do away with that fantastic posts page."
posted by Plutor at 9:53 AM on March 17, 2006

I'm having a very difficult parsing that sentence, so I'll just take your word on it. Favourites??
posted by five fresh fish at 11:57 AM on March 17, 2006

The lifehacker writing really sucked away my time this week. I hope to roll it out next week to everyone.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:57 AM on March 17, 2006

You could farm that out as an AskMe: What lifehacks do you know? (Which, in itself, is a lifehack, innit?)

C'mon. Slack.
posted by klangklangston at 2:03 PM on March 17, 2006

Just make sure that it gets included in the weekly AskMe Roundup post.
posted by turbodog at 2:30 PM on March 17, 2006

The lifehacker writing really sucked away my time this week. I hope to roll it out next week to everyone.

I intend to post another meta if it isn't active by this time next week.
posted by shmegegge at 4:44 PM on March 17, 2006

co.mments.com works for me.
posted by davar at 5:07 PM on March 17, 2006

Just make sure that it gets included in the weekly daily AskMe Roundup post.
posted by blag at 6:44 PM on March 17, 2006

Hey! They owe us money, then, don't they?
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 7:58 PM on March 17, 2006

I just use my del.icio.us for that purpose.
posted by nadawi at 8:06 PM on March 17, 2006