Related Posts Pony

October 21, 2008 12:45 PM

AskMetaFilter : Related Questions : : MetaFilter : ___{ P O N Y ! }___

I'd like "Related FPPs" to be generated and added to the bottom of an FPP, like those currently offered in AskMeFi posts. It would uncover the strata of cool FPPs already on MeFi in a way that the "tags" function or other searches may not touch. Serendipity ensues!

(Also, it could lead to some hilarious, milk-spurting-out-the-nose results.)

posted by not_on_display to Feature Requests at 12:45 PM (28 comments total)

This pony is useless seriously undervalued without pictures.
posted by Cranberry at 12:57 PM on October 21, 2008

Here, Cranberry. I assume that's what you had in mind.
posted by Wolfdog at 1:11 PM on October 21, 2008 [4 favorites]

AskMetaFilter : Related Questions : : MetaFilter : ___{TAGS }___

HTH.
posted by dersins at 1:12 PM on October 21, 2008

Despite your H's, I don't think TH's because Ask has both (1) tags, and (2) related questions, and they are different features. Thus, Ask:Tags :: MetaFilter:Tags, and the original blank remains unfilled.
posted by Wolfdog at 1:15 PM on October 21, 2008

AskMetaFilter : Related Questions : : MetaFilter : YouTube Search
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 1:15 PM on October 21, 2008 [5 favorites]

Other MetaFilters who bought the underlying premise embedded in this FPP also bought:

• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

posted by GuyZero at 1:24 PM on October 21, 2008 [5 favorites]

I'd like this. Actually, if pressed I'd like a number of footer widgets that would do different things that people could decide to add or not add to some special widget area. These include

- Related threads
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 years ago this day on MetaFilter
- other threads posted by this user
- other threads with similar comment patterns
- "likely mod responses to this thread" [based on other mod responses to similar threads]
- most favorited comments in similar threads
- user generated flow charts to decide how to respond to this thread based on related threads
- google images search on this thread's tags for those who miss the image tag
- email me this thread in a few days when I have time to read it, with all the links ready for clicking by me
- Send this thread to Digg, Reddit, MetaTalk

I am kidding about that last one.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:29 PM on October 21, 2008 [14 favorites]

The Mad Bathroom Companion: The Gushing Fourth Edition (Paperback)
by The Usual Gang of Idiots
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 1:30 PM on October 21, 2008 [1 favorite]

I think autogenerating it would be too much, because some topics have too many posts on them, and others are related but not in a way keywords would properly pick up. I just think since people already do the "previously" thing, that the process could somehow be semi-automatic. Bddthtdhtdh! Bddtdhtdhtdh!
posted by cashman at 1:36 PM on October 21, 2008

- "likely mod responses to this thread" [based on other mod responses to similar threads]

Do want!
posted by rtha at 1:51 PM on October 21, 2008

- google images search on this thread's tags for those who miss the image tag

I just google-searched for images related to TOMORROW'S HOLIDAY, and nothing super-awesome came up. It looks like Google isn't anywhere close to a substitute for a crowd of excitable metafiltrians.
posted by Greg Nog at 2:28 PM on October 21, 2008

Okay, wtf holiday is tomorrow?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 2:30 PM on October 21, 2008

It's My Little p0wnie Day.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:34 PM on October 21, 2008 [1 favorite]

The greatest day of the whole year, jessamyn! I'm only using lowercase letters right now because I want to save the alternative for tomorrow! I'm already planning to make salmon for toast, and to get a crockety bloat ready. Oh my goodness, oh my goodness, just six and half hours!
posted by Greg Nog at 2:35 PM on October 21, 2008

I think I'm taking tomorrow off, MeFi-wise. It'll be really LOUD in here, Jess.
posted by not_on_display at 2:38 PM on October 21, 2008

I got my first all-caps email from my dad a few days ago. I think I'll just assume he's an early celebrator then, instead of batshit insane. Thanks guys!
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 2:40 PM on October 21, 2008

he was probably eating salmon on toast at the time and was overwhelmed by the spirit

oh my goodness oh my goodness
posted by Greg Nog at 2:41 PM on October 21, 2008

Hey, dad! Bit of an "early celebrator", aren't ya?
posted by Wolfdog at 2:41 PM on October 21, 2008

Ponies? You want ponies? Here's your ponies!
posted by deborah at 3:03 PM on October 21, 2008

YOU AMERICANS ALL LIVE IN THE PAST. IT IS NOW 00:00 AND A COUPLE OF MINUTES CET WHICH MEANS THAT CAPSLOCK DAY IS IN FULL EFFECT IN THE HEARTLAND OF EUROPE! BREAK OUT THE FINE CHEZC BEER AND PARTY LIKE IT'S SALMON FOR TOAST! WEEEEEE!
posted by soundofsuburbia at 3:04 PM on October 21, 2008

I MEAN CZECH! STILL, ARE THEY IN THIS TIME ZONE? I FORGET!
posted by soundofsuburbia at 3:06 PM on October 21, 2008

Is it Kreplach Day again, already? OY! How the time passes! Pass me a dumpling, Bubbie.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:13 PM on October 21, 2008 [1 favorite]

LITERAL VIKING
posted by cortex (staff) at 4:54 PM on October 21, 2008

Europe has a heartland?
posted by Tehanu at 6:45 PM on October 21, 2008

WAT ABOUT MY PONIE?>
posted by not_on_display at 7:44 PM on October 21, 2008

home is where the heartland is.
posted by Meatbomb at 9:33 PM on October 21, 2008

im doing it wrong
posted by Jofus at 1:20 AM on October 22, 2008

this is a caps-free haven. shhh! do not tell the capslock ppl.
posted by not_on_display at 5:00 AM on October 22, 2008