Comments on: Hot Topics Request

Hot Topics Request

criticalbill — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:26:56 -0800

OK, now I rarely venture into this grey area here, so I may be way off base but I was kinda thinking - no matter how popular a thread becomes it sinks down and out just as quickly as people post new links/questions/dumb feature requests. I was wondering, would it be possible to have a separate page for MeFi, AskMe and MeTalk in which the threads were listed by most recent comment. This might give threads a bit of a longer lifespan and give an easy way to see what topics are 'hot'

By: Zozo

Zozo — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:28:32 -0800

I'd ~~ride the pony every day, Matt! And feed her, and brush her!~~ use this feature.

By: criticalbill

criticalbill — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:31:20 -0800

Now, on further looking, I just noticed the little box in the right-hand corner of Mefi which sort of probably does exactly this for you, but still even so...its own page...

By: dersins

dersins — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:32:41 -0800

I've often wished that little box existed for AskMe and MeTa...

By: criticalbill

criticalbill — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:34:23 -0800

OK, at the very least, can you give AskMe/MeTalk that little box in the top corner that does this for MeFi and then I'll never darken these grey shores again without doing some very thorough checking first

By: twiggy

twiggy — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:58:29 -0800

To be honest, I've completely ignored that box for as long as I can remember as "noise", never even noticing what it was.

I'd like to think this says something more about design elements than me being an idiot, but I could see good arguments for both.

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:08:45 -0800

Your idiocy is a design element! It's a win-win!

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:09:21 -0800

i see longboats.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:17:36 -0800

Then you're delusional, 'cause they're long gone.

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:20:54 -0800

long dong

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:36:18 -0800

The non-bumpableness of metafilter is a design feature.

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:39:55 -0800

bump.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:45:18 -0800

burp.

By: Bugbread

Bugbread — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:50:00 -0800

If you're interested in following up on certain threads, I recommend using co.mments.com, where you can bookmark individual threads, and it creates an RSS feed. That way, if anyone posts a comment in any of the co.mment bookmarked threads, it bumps to the top of the RSS, and you'll see it, even if it's a thread that's lain dormant for a week or two and is far off the front page. They also have a bookmarklet for bookmarking pages, so you don't have to go to the co.mments.com site itself to bookmark the thread.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:36:02 -0800

I'd love this feature, even with the potential for longboatage. It's not about following a specific thread, it's about having old threads that are getting regular comments get a spot on the sidebar.

There would be some sort of formula for ranking the oldtivity of threads, like:
if not on the front page (or second, third, maybe), then: For activity, (# of Comments in the last 24 hours) + (the # of comments in the last 72 hours divided by a constant (6 or 12, maybe)) For oldness, (# Days old) / (A constant, tweaked to make it work) activity * oldness ≈ score

Another question is whether you'd want them listed by score, or listed by date (with a score threshold that is auto-adjusted to keep the # of featured threads down to a certain size.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:51:56 -0800

I never got a raedyn tiara. Now it's over.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:52:58 -0800

Which, btw, is a fucking tragedy.

By: criticalbill

criticalbill — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:04:19 -0800

What is longboatage?

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:17:34 -0800

Twenty bucks, same as in town.

By: criticalbill

criticalbill — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:57:31 -0800

Ah, thanks for that

By: jewzilla

jewzilla — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:16:09 -0800

I second the motion!
Threads that get one post after weeks of silence should not get bumped up to the top right away, though. Update it hourly, showing the N busiest threads (with a penalty for thread age, as noted above).

By: Samuel Farrow

Samuel Farrow — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:25:04 -0800

Twenty bucks, same as in town. HAHAHAHAHA.

By: signal

signal — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:03:32 -0800

This is a new, novel idea and will surely be implemented.