Different Sort Orders for User Sites

November 24, 2001 3:03 AM

Would it possible, without too awful much work, to add the option to be able to choose from a couple of different sort orders here?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken to Feature Requests at 3:03 AM (9 comments total)

I was thinking maybe alpha by username, and by user number, and maybe by number of posts/comments, and by shoe size, and of course by number of ponies owned....it's a mighty unwieldy page.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 3:05 AM on November 24, 2001

Why? I find the purely random ordering funny. And I'm kind of figuring that a certain amount of amusement was Matt's intent when he did it.

Alpha ordering sort of implies you're looking for a particular person, so just do a page search. User number ordering just seems totally arbitrary to me. Or just pull up anybody's profile, and manually change the URL to get whatever number you're curious about. Has anybody actually gotten a pony out of Matt?
Was it cute? Can we come pet it?
posted by Su at 3:31 AM on November 24, 2001

User number ordering just seems totally arbitrary to me.

Figured that would be the one that would get jumped all over. *grin*
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 3:33 AM on November 24, 2001

Is there a similar list of members somewhere, unsorted or sorted? I often go straight to read "my favorite members" wherever they have posted or commented. I had posed the question before at the end of the thread here.
posted by Voyageman at 10:03 AM on November 24, 2001

It would be nice to have a page that just spits out 50 or so member pages at random.
posted by gleemax at 11:14 AM on November 24, 2001

Which is kinda the exact opposite of what I was hoping for...ah well.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:05 PM on November 24, 2001

Maybe by Alexa ranking?
posted by y2karl at 11:02 PM on November 24, 2001

Lyle Lovett understands Matt's pain :

If I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat

If I were Roy Rogers
I'd sure enough be single
I couldn't bring myself to marrying old Dale
It'd just be me and trigger
We'd go riding through them movies
Then we'd buy a boat and on the sea we'd sail

And if I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat

The mystery masked man was smart
He got himself a Tonto
'Cause Tonto did the dirty work for free
But Tonto he was smarter
And one day said kemo sabe
Kiss my ass I bought a boat
I'm going out to sea

And if I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat

And if I were like lightning
I wouldn't need no sneakers
I'd come and go wherever I would please
And I'd scare 'em by the shade tree
And I'd scare 'em by the light pole
But I would not scare my pony on my boat out on the sea

And if I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:49 AM on November 27, 2001

That is my all-time number-one king-daddy favorite song, stav. I've repeatedly asked for a T-shirt with a picture of a pony on a boat out on the sea for Xmas (link misplaced at the moment) and been denied. Somehow, this helps. Thanks.
posted by gleuschk at 9:08 AM on November 27, 2001