Could the mouseover text for the number of favorites show the usernames of the favoriters?

December 15, 2006 7:36 AM

When you hover / mouse over the [+ 2 favorites] text, you see more text that says "2 users marked this as favorites" Would it be useful if the pop-up text actually showed the usernames of those who favorited it? Small pony i know, only saving a few mouse clicks, but i think it would be cool. Any thoughts?
posted by kev23f to Feature Requests at 7:36 AM (10 comments total)

I'm "meh" on the idea, but this post is an example of why this might not be a good idea without some tweaking.
posted by Doofus Magoo at 7:43 AM on December 15, 2006

yeah, maybe a limit for where the number of favorites is greater than 234. But for most comments that are favorited 1-3 times it could be useful to be able to be able to have a very quick look-see.

Again, i know i'm only saving a few mouse clicks, but i just thought i'd ask. If its too much hassle to implement then so be it.
posted by kev23f at 7:57 AM on December 15, 2006

A few? Don't you mean you're saving one mouse click? This sounds like a better Greasemonkey script than a use of Matt's time. Not it.
posted by Plutor at 8:04 AM on December 15, 2006

Well strictly speaking then, two clicks. One to click on the favorites link, and then one to click back to the original page. And yes, i did think of greasemonkey, if someone does that then super.
posted by kev23f at 8:10 AM on December 15, 2006

Surely this would mean either doing an extra query for every single comment, or a join that brings back a vast amount of data, on large threads. Seems like a hugely resource-intensive solution to something that's not really a problem.
posted by matthewr at 8:24 AM on December 15, 2006

Seems like a hugely resource-intensive solution to something that's not really a problem.

You're talking about MetaFilter now, right?
posted by chrismear at 9:00 AM on December 15, 2006 [1 favorite]

what matthewr said. It'd be a drag to do another table lookup just for an occasional mouseover use.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:40 AM on December 15, 2006

It should also tell you why they marked it as a favorite, what the weather was like where they were when they marked it as a favorite, and what the probability is that they will unmark it at some point in the future.
posted by Eideteker at 12:13 PM on December 15, 2006

1. Whimsy
2. Dusty, with a chance of cat hair.
3. Almost certainly.
posted by The Confessor at 7:25 PM on December 15, 2006

/returns to the internet/

ah, i see its a non runner - well thanks anyway.
posted by kev23f at 5:56 AM on December 18, 2006