August 29, 2006

12:58 PM

How about an RSS Feed that keeps track of when other people save your comment as favorites? Then you would never have to check that page manually to boost your self-worth.
posted by smackfu to feature requests at 12:58 PM (28 comments total)

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posted by cortex at 1:09 PM on August 29, 2006

How about a greasemonkey script that will modify any thread to suggest that n users have marked each of your comments as favorite? And if you click the link, or navigate to your favorited-stuff page, it displays, instead, a big banner that says "You are awesome!"

Note that the value of n should be random, to add realism.
posted by cortex at 1:11 PM on August 29, 2006 [1 favorite]

I just want MetaFilter to stop telling me I look fat in these pants. *sobs*
posted by brain_drain at 1:19 PM on August 29, 2006

Then stop wearing them, brain_drain. I mean, I hate to break it to you, but those pleats just aren't working...
posted by dersins at 1:22 PM on August 29, 2006

Is there a greasemonkey script that will send a harmless but slightly painful jolt of electricity to a small electrode attached to your scrotum each time one of your comments is flagged? That way, you won't have to manually check the site in order to self-flagellate.
posted by kosem at 1:23 PM on August 29, 2006

Yeah, it's definitely not the pants.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 1:24 PM on August 29, 2006

smackfu, just for that, I disfavored all those comments of yours I'd been glorifying.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 1:29 PM on August 29, 2006

you
are
awesome

You can bookmark this, and refer to it often.
posted by boo_radley at 1:32 PM on August 29, 2006 [10 favorites]

But I enjoy manually boosting my self-worth.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 1:33 PM on August 29, 2006 [1 favorite]

Pleats? Jesus, how much more Kirth Gerson can you g er hey wow LOOK A MONKEY *points*
posted by scrump at 1:34 PM on August 29, 2006 [1 favorite]

You're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, people like favorite you!
posted by mathowie at 1:41 PM on August 29, 2006

Can someone please give me a warning before the cultish ego breakdown and personality modification games begin? I'm just here for the coffee and donuts.
posted by loquacious at 1:45 PM on August 29, 2006

also, imagine what I wrote about you in heading 2. Because that's how I wrote it.
posted by boo_radley at 2:04 PM on August 29, 2006

boo_radley, I just gave it a boost.
posted by mathowie at 2:17 PM on August 29, 2006

Shouldn't it blink too?
posted by InfidelZombie at 2:22 PM on August 29, 2006

Wow, boo_radley must be feeling awesome because he got to use h2!

Way above us peons.
posted by knave at 2:32 PM on August 29, 2006

I'm just here for the coffee and donuts.

Okay, WHAT THE FUCK, OVER.

I didn't get any donuts. Or coffee. You greedy bastards.
posted by scrump at 2:41 PM on August 29, 2006

you gotta get here early, baby. *munch, munch*
man, forbidden markup donuts! These are great!
posted by boo_radley at 2:44 PM on August 29, 2006

I love it when Matt's feeling whimsical.
posted by Zozo at 2:57 PM on August 29, 2006

Indeed
posted by brain_drain at 3:03 PM on August 29, 2006

also, thxu, matt.
posted by boo_radley at 5:46 PM on August 29, 2006

♥
posted by blue_beetle at 6:31 PM on August 29, 2006

I always wonder how I'm supposed to feel when somebody unfavorites one of my comments or posts. I'm all like, "Hey, you thought it was good before, what changed? Don't you like me anymore?" Seriously, it gets me down.

And then I wake up and realize it was all just a website. Only a website.....
posted by Afroblanco at 7:00 PM on August 29, 2006

I am sure that you have noticed a serious decline in my amount of comments on the site in the last few months, and that you have all wondered why I have been so quiet lately. Well, I am here to tell you. It is the favorites. I can't comment knowing that there is the possibility that it will be favorited, without making the comment so insightful, so funny, so witty, that it will definitely be favorited. Day after day I type comments into these little boxes, but then I think, "That is pretty insightful, funny and witty, but not so insightful, funny and witty that it is assured of being favorited" so then I erase it and keep lurking. I just can't hit "Post Comment" unless I know that it will be favorited. I am down to about ten comments a month now. The site is suffering. I don't know what to do. I am sorry. I know that I am letting you guys down. The favorites. They mess with my head man.
posted by ND¢ at 7:29 PM on August 29, 2006 [4 favorites]

Who is your head man?
posted by dg at 8:15 PM on August 29, 2006

The freight train brakeman who rides in the locomotive cab, silly.
posted by Afroblanco at 8:51 PM on August 29, 2006

As a working IT professional I frequently manually boost my self worth.
posted by Sparx at 11:36 PM on August 29, 2006

Who is your head man?

Who run Bartertown?
posted by loquacious at 1:11 AM on August 30, 2006