Usernames on the 'who favorited this post' page

January 18, 2008 9:38 AM

Minor usability quibble: When you're looking at who favorites a post, and click a username, it shows their favorites instead of showing their profile page, like every other linked username on the site does. Maybe a different link to show their favorites from that page?
posted by empath to feature requests at 9:38 AM (18 comments total)

Yeah, I should probably change that. I think the original thinking was you might want to know what else they favorited so I tried to save a step and take you right to that instead of dumping onto their userpage, but I could see how that's confusing. I'll change it.
posted by mathowie at 9:42 AM on January 18 [2 favorites]

Hooray - this has always bothered me as it adds an unnecessary step to my daily stalkings.
posted by Item at 9:55 AM on January 18

nthed, mthed, and othed. Thanks, matt!
posted by not_on_display at 10:19 AM on January 18

I like having a direct link to see their favorites, too. Not sure what that should look like though. -- empath(favorites)?
posted by empath at 10:21 AM on January 18

Use a caret—that's everybody's 'favourite' notation. empath^.
posted by nowonmai at 11:44 AM on January 18

At this point (with Matt changing it), you'd be just one click away on said user's page to their faves list anyhow, though.
posted by cortex at 11:45 AM on January 18

When I click on another user's name, I would like them to receive a short, sharp shock.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 11:56 AM on January 18 [4 favorites]

*Nominates Flo for honorary doctorate in humanity*
posted by Cranberry at 12:23 PM on January 18

You do realize that with each of these changes we get one step closer to Intelligent Design?
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 12:51 PM on January 18

Since we're talking about minor useability kibbles, and this one was hungrily snapped up by Matt before it even hit the floor, I'd like to take this opportunity to toss out one of my own: Sometimes it really hurts my poor heart that there's no appropriate forum here for grading the mods' deletion explanations. Recently, jessamyn deleted the That About Wraps It Up For Science thread with the following explanation: don't pick this fight here. don't LOL this XIANS here either. Thanks. -- jessamyn *BUZZ* Wrong! The correct deletion explanation was "That About Wraps It Up For This Subject." We would also have accepted, "That About Wraps It Up For This Post," "That About Wraps It Up For This Thread," "Kirk, out," and "For fucks sake, enough already!"
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 1:10 PM on January 18 [3 favorites]

In theory, people could comment on puke & cry's blog.

How about "That About LOLs It Up For XIANS"?

I got nothin'.
posted by cortex at 1:20 PM on January 18

In theory, people could comment on puke & cry's blog.

That would totally dull the thrill of using a claim that there's no appropriate place for saying something as a passive-aggressive mechanism for saying that very thing in an inappropriate place. Jeez! Killjoy!
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 1:55 PM on January 18

There aren't even tumbleweeds rolling through the empty streets of Deleted Thread, more's the pity. What, a comment every 60 days, perhaps, p&c? More people should comment there, if only to get a proverbial boot in when the mods are too efficient.
posted by mumkin at 2:37 PM on January 18

When I click on another user's name, I would like them to receive a short, sharp shock.

The - symbol should issue a short, sharp, shock. The + symbol should be hooked up to the latest, state-of-the-art, teledildonics
posted by PeterMcDermott at 3:30 AM on January 19

The - symbol should issue a short, sharp, shock.

Hush up, Agent McDermott! The - icon is only visible if you're logged into Cabal Mode. I mean, it's never visible, I mean, it doesn't exist... I mean, there is no - icon... I mean, CabalMod, please nuke this thread.
posted by Rock Steady at 1:54 PM on January 19

When I bite into a Peppermint Patty.....I get the cool sensation that I am the only one on-line
and when I click on a user's name, they can feel the cool creepy sensation of me trolling their very being.
posted by doctorschlock at 2:27 PM on January 19

When I click on another user's name, I would like them to receive a short, sharp shock.

You mean they don't?

I've been wasting so much time :(
posted by spiderwire at 8:01 PM on January 19

When you're looking at who favorites a post...

Man, and I thought I had a lot of time on my hands.
posted by neuron at 9:04 PM on January 21