Is there a way to get RSS of a user's comments?

May 29, 2006 4:36 PM

Is there a way to get an RSS feed of http://ask.metafilter.com/search_comments.mefi?user_ID=NNNNN ?

If not, could that happen at some point? Some users tend to give really interesting answers no matter what question is being asked, and it'd be nice to be able to be notified when they jump in.
posted by dmd to feature requests at 4:36 PM (5 comments total)

Isn't that option already on each user page?
posted by dobbs at 4:52 PM on May 29, 2006

I think that only applies to FPPs, AskMe questions and MeTa posts, not comments, dobbs.
posted by matthewr at 4:55 PM on May 29, 2006

Yeah, current feeds are for posts only, not comments.

I'm not sure if such a thing would take too many server resources, but it sounds like an interesting idea.
posted by Rhomboid at 5:08 PM on May 29, 2006

Damn, I thought the mighty MetaRSS might work for this, but it doesn't - you just get a feed with one item containing all the comments on the page.
posted by jack_mo at 3:33 AM on May 30, 2006

I seem to remember Matt saying comment-feeds would be A Bad Thing™. The rationale being that it would simply facilitate nemesis-stalking. It's too bad we can't have nice things.
posted by Plutor at 5:38 AM on May 30, 2006