Comments on: what projects I have voted for

what projects I have voted for

niles — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:15:01 -0800

Ok, so I'm really a MeFi n00b even though I pretend I'm not. Is there a list somewhere of what projects I have voted for somewhere?

By: niles

niles — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:16:06 -0800

You know, I can see my comments and posts and stuff, but I "bookmarked" a project by voting, and now I can't find it.

Or am I just missing the "I voted for..." link?

By: gsteff

gsteff — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:19:12 -0800

This is one of several reasons why voting for projects should be merged with the favorites system, at least in terminology. They're conceptually identical.

By: niles

niles — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:25:45 -0800

So, it's not just me then...

By: edgeways

edgeways — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:27:31 -0800

no, it's just you and gsteff....

wait, that's wrong, you gsteff, and myself

By: jonson

jonson — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:38:29 -0800

I totally agree, and I'm surprised this never occurred to me before - when you "vote" for a project, it should be identical (in the db) to "favoriting" a comment or thread.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:41:34 -0800

yeah, I could make this so.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:41:51 -0800

Or, I could just list votes on projects like comments.

By: niles

niles — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:42:08 -0800

Well, I stand corrected.

By: niles

niles — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:43:59 -0800

(and, on lack-of-preview)

That would be very nice, mathowie. Here I've been voting left and right, and I don't even know what for...

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:47:47 -0800

Here I've been voting left and right, and I don't even know what for...

This is why democracy will never work.

By: niles

niles — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:55:12 -0800

(well, voting for the left and right, so it evened out. Law of Averages, you know.)

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:07:30 -0800

MetaFilter: This is why democracy will never work.

By: allen.spaulding

allen.spaulding — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:28:09 -0800

of rather,

Metafilter: This is what democracy not working looks like

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:06:58 -0800

I'd recommend two changes.

1. list votes on projects like favorites/comments [still keep the big number though, I think they're useful]
2. totally remove the "fantastic post" option from the flagging queue and just have favorites serve the same purpose as (formerly) fantastic.

By: EndsOfInvention

EndsOfInvention — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:27:31 -0800

yeah, I could make this so.

Make it so, number 1.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:20:04 -0800

Psh, that's so an "engage" gesture. Picard didn't point when he said "make it so". He nodded smartly.

By: EndsOfInvention

EndsOfInvention — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:26:30 -0800

True, I Googled for 'picard engage' because it was a more recognisable gesture than a nod.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:39:41 -0800

2. totally remove the "fantastic post" option from the flagging queue and just have favorites serve the same purpose as (formerly) fantastic.

So what are those of us who want to bookmark comments and threads supposed to do? I really wish Matt would change the name "favorites," but he's mulish about it.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:10:35 -0800

better than pulish amirite

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:30:57 -0800

2. totally remove the "fantastic post" option from the flagging queue and just have favorites serve the same purpose as (formerly) fantastic.

I thought the purpose of the fantastic flag to bring things to your attention. Are there still public parts of the site that aggregate it?

By: Melinika

Melinika — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:54:32 -0800

I agree with languagehat - I really liked being able to use favorites to bookmark on-site, but since "favorites" are widely used simply to show visible appreciation for a post or comment, that dilutes its usefulness for bookmarking.

It would be great to have those two uses separated out - but if that's not feasible, perhaps add an extra step: when you "favorite" something, you go to a page where there's a checkmark box that asks "do you also want to bookmark this favorite?" Then only those you specifically request to bookmark are on your profile page; the rest are just marked to show that you liked that post/comment.

By: gsteff

gsteff — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:02:53 -0800

So what are those of us who want to bookmark comments and threads supposed to do? I really wish Matt would change the name "favorites," but he's mulish about it.

Agreed, but yeah, it's not going to happen. As such, IMHO, the best alternative is to use favoriting to show appreciation, and standardize on one social bookmarking system (read: del.icio.us) and set of tagging conventions for bookmarking. In particular, on del.icio.us, people seem to use "mefi" and "metafilter" to tag MeFi posts, with "metafilter" being significantly more popular. There's more variety for AskMe posts, with "askmefi", "askme", "askmetafilter" and "ask.metafilter" all being used, in order of popularity. Again, it might be nice to standardize on "askmefi" because of inertia, or "askmetafilter" for typographic consistency with the described tagging patterns for the blue.

But this is metatalk, and we can't make anyone do anything.