More favorited posts, more awesomeness July 16, 2008 1:22 PM   Subscribe

Somewhat selfish pony request: Could we add a "more results" or "next" button to the All Time Popular Favorites tab, allowing people to scroll through a larger list?

The most popular posts that are not in the top 20 or so of all time seem to go down the memory hole, it would be great to be able to scroll through a larger list. My selfish reason for noticing this is that two of my posts have been in the top favorites for awhile, and one (the better one, in my view) is on the edge of disappearing. Lots of cool, much-favorited posts are already gone and hard to find, and it seems like this would be a good way to keep some of the best of MF around.
posted by blahblahblah to Feature Requests at 1:22 PM (31 comments total)

I'd hit it.
posted by clearly at 1:28 PM on July 16, 2008


I like this pony.
posted by desjardins at 1:40 PM on July 16, 2008


I'm starting to think that my dream of having a mod named Cooter will never become a reality.
posted by burnmp3s at 1:40 PM on July 16, 2008


I may or may not be in favour of this pony. I hereby express my indifference. Meh!
posted by blue_beetle at 1:53 PM on July 16, 2008


Maybe, but we'd still have to limit it to like maybe paging back 5-10 times before putting an end to it, due to the insane query processing required to do it (we have to dip into a table of millions of votes to count them, and they're indexed, but it's still fail whale territory to do the 500th page of it).
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:58 PM on July 16, 2008


Some of us are happy to have our posts and comments slink into desuetude. Should anyone seeking monuments to his/her achievements get his/her own blog on his/her own server?
posted by Cranberry at 2:04 PM on July 16, 2008


holy cow, we just figured out the millionth favorite (I put it on the sideblog on the front of mefi)
posted by mathowie (staff) at 2:08 PM on July 16, 2008


holy crap a millionth favorite!

I'm starting to think that my dream of having a mod named Cooter will never become a reality.

Welcome to my dream of having a place to hang out free of casual (and often irony-flavored) sexism. Waiting is so difficult, no?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 2:16 PM on July 16, 2008 [4 favorites]


So what did she win?

(youcancallmeal for the millionth favorite, that is, not jessamyn for - well, you know)
posted by yhbc at 2:17 PM on July 16, 2008


holy cow, we just figured out the millionth favorite (I put it on the sideblog on the front of mefi)

Is that total favorites or does it that take into account favorites that have been unfavorited?
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 2:19 PM on July 16, 2008


desuetude

That's a real word?!? I always thought it was just another user name, and didn't bother to investigate. Nice.
posted by vytae at 2:25 PM on July 16, 2008


So what did she win?

She should get the account al at no charge.
posted by netbros at 2:27 PM on July 16, 2008


The pitiable fate of falling off the top 20 should be incentive for you to make a great new post to replace it, not to add a feature to let you rest on your laurels.
posted by Dave Faris at 2:30 PM on July 16, 2008


Maybe, but we'd still have to limit it to like maybe paging back 5-10 times before putting an end to it

that sounds good
posted by caddis at 2:40 PM on July 16, 2008


Maybe, but we'd still have to limit it…
Can this kind of thing be calculated once a day and served as static pages?
posted by nowonmai at 2:51 PM on July 16, 2008


By my rough math, that means an average of 13.333... favorites per user. Can that be right?
posted by Navelgazer at 2:51 PM on July 16, 2008


jessamyn: "Welcome to my dream of having a place to hang out free of casual (and often irony-flavored) sexism."

Heh. Women.
Amirite?
posted by Plutor at 3:29 PM on July 16, 2008


Christ, what an asshole (I am)
posted by Plutor at 3:30 PM on July 16, 2008


I think it can. I have over 400 favorites, and I don't feel like I use the feature a ton. There are others who have well over 1000 (tehloki comes to mind).
posted by danb at 3:30 PM on July 16, 2008


...to a cat-related question.
Sur-prise, surprise, surprise.
posted by Wolfdog at 3:49 PM on July 16, 2008


...does it that take into account favorites that have been unfavorited?

Nope, it's all favorites based on an incrementing ID.
posted by pb (staff) at 4:51 PM on July 16, 2008


Curious, where does Astro Zombie's Pixar story fit in? It's got 719 favorites as of this moment, yet doesn't appear on the most favorites list.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:03 PM on July 16, 2008


comment v. post
posted by Dave Faris at 5:19 PM on July 16, 2008


Brandon Blatcher - That's a different pony.
posted by tellurian at 5:29 PM on July 16, 2008


comment v. post

Oh, comment totally wins, always.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:49 PM on July 16, 2008


posts totally win, always ;)
posted by caddis at 6:13 PM on July 16, 2008


I suspect if you made a post called "posts totally win" it would be deleted. The same is not true for comments.

I do not know how to interpret this fact.
posted by fantabulous timewaster at 6:44 PM on July 16, 2008

Welcome to my dream of having a place to hang out free of casual (and often irony-flavored) sexism. Waiting is so difficult, no?
Is it sad that all I thought of was the mechanic from Dukes of Hazzard when I saw the original comment?
posted by Karmakaze at 6:19 AM on July 17, 2008


Is it sad that all I thought of was the mechanic from Dukes of Hazzard when I saw the original comment?

I think the point is that DoH was a bit of a casual sexism smörgåsbord.
posted by anotherpanacea at 7:34 AM on July 17, 2008


I suspect if you made a post called "posts totally win" it would be deleted. The same is not true for comments.

I disagree.
posted by caddis at 8:44 AM on July 17, 2008


I suspect if you made a post called "posts totally win" it would be deleted. The same is not true for comments.

Yes, posts are held to a higher standard than comments, because they are more visible. I don't know why you just shit on the front page of MetaTalk to make your jokey point, but it seems obvious to me.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:48 AM on July 17, 2008


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