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March 11, 2008 8:46 PM

Not another favourites pony: Tag clouds for favourites?

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but would it be possible to have a tag list/cloud akin to the one on the front page or your profile page, except on the my favourites page? How hard would this be to code?

I use the 'favourites' function largely as a bookmark for threads I want to read when I have more time, so it'd be lovely if I could someday say "Hey, I feel like reading all threads that involve scifi" and have those threads all nicely listed for me and such.

posted by Phire to feature requests at 8:46 PM (23 comments total)

This feature might reveal more about myself than I care to know.
posted by brain_drain at 8:48 PM on March 11, 2008

I'm not sure I got what you're asking for.

Do you want:

a) tags added to favorites, so you can start applying tags to anything you favorite, then down the line we can show you your favorites in a tag cloud format by self-applied tag.

or

b) us to pull the existing tags out on posts you've marked as a favorite, in order to auto-construct a tag cloud based on how people described the posts you liked

Was it b? I can't tell.
posted by mathowie at 8:51 PM on March 11, 2008

I like it.

       (`-.          ,-')        \ \\        / //         \ \\      / //          \ \\    / //           \ `````-//          (___)(___)-.           (0)  (0)``-._            |~   ~ , `-._            |      |  `-._            |     /\   `-._        __..---'''''-.._.._            |     | \   `-._  _.--'                _  `.            )     |  \      ``                     \`\  \           /      |   \                             | `\ \          /_....__)    \                            |   `\\         /        \     |   I WISH I WERE A PONY   /      ))        |          |    |                         /      ((((        |          |    |                        /        ))))        | () ()    |     \     |          |  _.-'         (((        `.        .'      `._. |______..| |-'|                   `------'           | || |     | || |                             | || |     | || |                             | || |     | || |                               | || |     | || |                          _____ | || |_____| || |                      /     `` |` /     ` |` |                      \________\__\_______\__\                       """""""""   """""""'""" 

posted by killdevil at 9:00 PM on March 11, 2008 [2 favorites]

I think he wants to see a tag cloud reflecting the tags associated with things HE has favorited.
posted by killdevil at 9:02 PM on March 11, 2008

It was b), matt, sorry for the confusion. I only linked to my personal page because I wasn't certain how to construct a link that would reflect the page of whomever clicked on the link, and suspect that such a link does not exist. Also, she. :D
posted by Phire at 9:04 PM on March 11, 2008

On the other hand, some variation of a) is something I've been begging for for ages.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:02 PM on March 11, 2008

*but which I might not even use that much, to be honest, because I tend to be more excited by potential than actuality, I've found. So, you know, it's all good.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:05 PM on March 11, 2008 [1 favorite]

Yeah, I considered asking for a), too, then realized it was more or less an in-site del.icio.us gimmick and that there was little purpose.

Although, the del.icio.us extension doesn't work with Firefox 3 beta, much to my chagrin. Oh well.
posted by Phire at 11:56 PM on March 11, 2008

Yeah, I considered asking for a), too, then realized it was more or less an in-site del.icio.us gimmick and that there was little purpose.

Oh, I couldn't disagree more, and have waxed rhapsodic on why I think so in the past. And am restraining myself from doing so yet again.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 12:29 AM on March 12, 2008

Tag clouds are one of the most chortleworthy, froofy affectations of "Web 2.0" in my opinion. Not particularly practical for, you know, finding information, but gosh darned if they don't look fancy floating around there like.
posted by loiseau at 2:33 AM on March 12, 2008 [4 favorites]

While I'm inclined to agree with loiseau when it comes to other sites, I'll admit I would use a tag cloud that pulls the tags on posts I've favorited. For example, I tend to favorite a lot of music posts as bookmarks for revisiting when I have more time, and it would be nice if I could just see all those posts when I'm sitting in front of my computer with the decent speakers.
posted by JaredSeth at 4:14 AM on March 12, 2008

Do you folks have some kind of web 2.0 jargon machine that you generate these pony requests with?
posted by Eideteker at 4:38 AM on March 12, 2008 [1 favorite]

Actually, yes. I made this one like a year and a half ago.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:26 AM on March 12, 2008

Tag clouds for every list!
posted by Artw at 7:34 AM on March 12, 2008

How about a tag ball? Or a tag aerogel?

Or just a list would work too.
posted by smackfu at 7:55 AM on March 12, 2008

We could just randomly enlarge words to make the comments look like a tag cloud.
posted by Artw at 8:03 AM on March 12, 2008 [3 favorites]

I remember that one time somebody flew his tag jet into a tag cloud. All the tag passengers inside the tag jet went, 'tag ooooh,' but what they didn't know was there was a tag mountain hidden in the tag cloud. It was a tagastrophe.
posted by ardgedee at 8:04 AM on March 12, 2008 [1 favorite]

Once again, I suspect that having an insight into my personality through an inspection of things that I favorite would lead me to some personal revelations that I'm uncomfortable knowing about myself.

"Gee, I never realized that I favorited comments with the words: extortion, cannibalism, cactus, hookers, and the Osmonds as much as I have. That's weird."
posted by quin at 8:16 AM on March 12, 2008

Dick jokes.
posted by kosem at 8:20 AM on March 12, 2008

We could just randomly enlarge words to make the comments look like a tag cloud.

Ooh. I need to build this.

*incentivizes stavros' embedded life-hacks*
posted by cortex at 8:39 AM on March 12, 2008

http://www.metafilter.com/tags/guten returns 0 results. =(
posted by Eideteker at 8:44 AM on March 12, 2008

Metafilter: guten-free.
posted by ardgedee at 8:53 AM on March 12, 2008

Tell me why
I don't like ponies
I want to shoo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oot the whole horse down
posted by katillathehun at 8:58 AM on March 12, 2008 [1 favorite]