Pony request: show favorites by user October 29, 2008 3:39 PM Subscribe
I'd like to be able to see which of a user's posts/comments I have favorited. For instance, I know I've faved seven of cortex's posts/comments, according to the infodump, but which ones? There's no easy way to find out. If I search for "cortex" in my favorites, I only get references to his name, not things posted by him.
A corollary to this would be a way to see which users frequently favorite your comments/posts. Perhaps you have something in common? (Or they're stalking you. Or they're tehloki.)
A corollary to this would be a way to see which users frequently favorite your comments/posts. Perhaps you have something in common? (Or they're stalking you. Or they're tehloki.)
Word. It would make it sooo much easier to find things. I often remember who said the good/interesting comments, but don't have time to rifle through their entire posting history.
Or alternatively, I could search a users name, and answer the question "Why do I like this person? Why do I have positive associations with their username?" Ohhhhh yeah, that! Fantastic. Hugs all around!
posted by iamkimiam at 4:07 PM on October 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
Or alternatively, I could search a users name, and answer the question "Why do I like this person? Why do I have positive associations with their username?" Ohhhhh yeah, that! Fantastic. Hugs all around!
posted by iamkimiam at 4:07 PM on October 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
It's a somewhat indirect route, but you can actually figure this stuff out yourself using the Infodump; some enterprising soul could probably set up a custom Favorites Correlator application to crunch those numbers, if they were so inclined.
posted by cortex (staff) at 4:13 PM on October 29, 2008
posted by cortex (staff) at 4:13 PM on October 29, 2008
Yeah, I know I can correlate it using the infodump, but I wouldn't know how to build an app that would put all the comments/posts on a page. The best I could do would be to spit out a list of links to the favorited items, and I'd have to click on each one.
posted by desjardins at 4:28 PM on October 29, 2008
posted by desjardins at 4:28 PM on October 29, 2008
It would be very useful to have a simple way to delete all of the favorites you've given to a particular user. You know, for situations where someone pisses you off and doesn't deserve your favorites anymore.
posted by Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America at 4:32 PM on October 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America at 4:32 PM on October 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
You know, for situations where someone pisses you off and doesn't deserve your favorites anymore.
It's up to individuals how they use the favorites system, but IMO it should be the comment that is awarded the favorite, not the user; otherwise people would be favoriting every passing remark made by people they like, and generally they will like the person based on previous comments. Or, as you describe, refrain from favoriting comments they appreciate and/or agree with strongly on the basis that the person, at some point elsewhere, made comments that they disliked. This strikes me as somewhat petulant behavior.
Maybe the problem is the word "favorite" (in a similar way that one of the problems with Facebook is the word "friend"). Maybe it should be "notable", with a range of reasons, like Slashdot uses: 'approve/agree' - 'funny' - 'insightful'. It would also be useful to have 'disapprove/disagree' distinguished from 'offensive', as currently the negative markers all imply that the reader wants the comment removed for one reason or another. Maybe a +3 to -3 scale of approve/agree, with an option to annotate.
But that then raises the prospect of interacting with other people's annotations, and 'browsing at +2' and so on, which isn't what MetaFilter's about, IMO. Same reason Matt doesn't put a killfilter in - it strikes at the sense of community.
posted by aeschenkarnos at 4:51 PM on October 29, 2008
It's up to individuals how they use the favorites system, but IMO it should be the comment that is awarded the favorite, not the user; otherwise people would be favoriting every passing remark made by people they like, and generally they will like the person based on previous comments. Or, as you describe, refrain from favoriting comments they appreciate and/or agree with strongly on the basis that the person, at some point elsewhere, made comments that they disliked. This strikes me as somewhat petulant behavior.
Maybe the problem is the word "favorite" (in a similar way that one of the problems with Facebook is the word "friend"). Maybe it should be "notable", with a range of reasons, like Slashdot uses: 'approve/agree' - 'funny' - 'insightful'. It would also be useful to have 'disapprove/disagree' distinguished from 'offensive', as currently the negative markers all imply that the reader wants the comment removed for one reason or another. Maybe a +3 to -3 scale of approve/agree, with an option to annotate.
But that then raises the prospect of interacting with other people's annotations, and 'browsing at +2' and so on, which isn't what MetaFilter's about, IMO. Same reason Matt doesn't put a killfilter in - it strikes at the sense of community.
posted by aeschenkarnos at 4:51 PM on October 29, 2008
I'd rather have a way to reject favourites. Somebody you don't like favourites one of your comments, and you can hit a button that says 'We don't need your stinking favourites. I *so* don't care what you think about my comment.'
posted by PeterMcDermott at 4:55 PM on October 29, 2008 [4 favorites]
posted by PeterMcDermott at 4:55 PM on October 29, 2008 [4 favorites]
It's up to individuals how they use the favorites system, but IMO it should be the comment that is awarded the favorite, not the user;
FYI, YHBT.
posted by dersins at 5:02 PM on October 29, 2008
FYI, YHBT.
posted by dersins at 5:02 PM on October 29, 2008
I do favorite by comment, not by user, but if I've favorited a lot of a particular person's comments, I might be interested in what else they've had to say.
posted by desjardins at 5:02 PM on October 29, 2008
posted by desjardins at 5:02 PM on October 29, 2008
faceted search will do this. I know I sound all "oh when Obama is president we will all fart daisies" about this, but I think a better search will do this generally, and a bunch of other stuff specifically. I agree, it would be useful.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 5:04 PM on October 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 5:04 PM on October 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
"This" is general and "a bunch of other stuff" is specific?
posted by Wolfdog at 5:05 PM on October 29, 2008
posted by Wolfdog at 5:05 PM on October 29, 2008
Will faceted search help my find my keys?
They are in a Pique keychain, and I lost them outside the Estadio Jalisco in Guadalajara, Mexico, after the Brazil - Argelia match. Brazil won 2-0.
posted by dirty lies at 5:10 PM on October 29, 2008
They are in a Pique keychain, and I lost them outside the Estadio Jalisco in Guadalajara, Mexico, after the Brazil - Argelia match. Brazil won 2-0.
posted by dirty lies at 5:10 PM on October 29, 2008
I'd like to add a snarky, meaningless suggestion for improving favorites, to show how much I don't like favorites.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 5:21 PM on October 29, 2008
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 5:21 PM on October 29, 2008
Yes! Faceted search will help you. Just open the Lost & Found facet, and drill down on Central America -> Mexico -> Guadalajara -> Estadio de Fútbol -> Keychains -> P
posted by Roger Dodger at 5:25 PM on October 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Roger Dodger at 5:25 PM on October 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
Central America -> Mexico ?
posted by micayetoca at 6:21 PM on October 29, 2008
posted by micayetoca at 6:21 PM on October 29, 2008
dhruva beat me to it.
posted by micayetoca at 6:22 PM on October 29, 2008
posted by micayetoca at 6:22 PM on October 29, 2008
Never mind. Faceted search can't help you after all.
posted by Roger Dodger at 6:48 PM on October 29, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by Roger Dodger at 6:48 PM on October 29, 2008 [2 favorites]
According to the UN country classification scheme, Mexico is indeed part of Central America.
posted by grouse at 7:18 PM on October 29, 2008
posted by grouse at 7:18 PM on October 29, 2008
Actually, it's both Central America and North America, but not Northern America:
"The continent of North America (003) comprises Northern America (021), Caribbean (029), and Central America (013)."
posted by CKmtl at 7:28 PM on October 29, 2008
"The continent of North America (003) comprises Northern America (021), Caribbean (029), and Central America (013)."
posted by CKmtl at 7:28 PM on October 29, 2008
I, too, have found myself wishing for this feature many times. The only reason I wouldn't want it saddled to a faceted search bill is if that delays its implementation.
posted by vytae at 7:35 PM on October 29, 2008
posted by vytae at 7:35 PM on October 29, 2008
Maybe the problem is the word "favorite"
Hmm... maybe I'll start a MeTa thread on that topic!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:37 PM on October 29, 2008
Hmm... maybe I'll start a MeTa thread on that topic!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:37 PM on October 29, 2008
The tough one is whether Bermuda is North America or the Caribbean.
posted by smackfu at 7:38 PM on October 29, 2008
posted by smackfu at 7:38 PM on October 29, 2008
Never mind, a judicious use of Mechanical Turk and Yahoo Answers led me to my keys. They were in the left pocket of my pink/yellow/purple Italian ski sweater.
posted by dirty lies at 7:54 PM on October 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by dirty lies at 7:54 PM on October 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
It would be very useful to have a simple way to delete all of the favorites you've given to a particular user. You know, for situations where someone pisses you off and doesn't deserve your favorites anymore.
I think you are confusing favorites with fellatorits.
posted by BrotherCaine at 7:55 PM on October 29, 2008
I think you are confusing favorites with fellatorits.
posted by BrotherCaine at 7:55 PM on October 29, 2008
And for the record, Guadalajara has 2 premier league Estadios de Futból, 3 de Marzo and Jalisco.
If you left politics aside, and looked at a map of the American Continent, and had to divide it into north, central and south regions, where would you draw the lines?
I always have thought that Central America is unnecessary, but if you really need to call something Central America, it should be the thin land bridge connecting the big masses on the North and South, Panama and Costa Rica. I would at most extend in to the Honduras/Guatemala border.
posted by dirty lies at 8:02 PM on October 29, 2008
If you left politics aside, and looked at a map of the American Continent, and had to divide it into north, central and south regions, where would you draw the lines?
I always have thought that Central America is unnecessary, but if you really need to call something Central America, it should be the thin land bridge connecting the big masses on the North and South, Panama and Costa Rica. I would at most extend in to the Honduras/Guatemala border.
posted by dirty lies at 8:02 PM on October 29, 2008
"oh when Obama is president we will all fart daisies"
I watched the infomercial tonight. He specifically promised the daisy farting.
posted by middleclasstool at 8:22 PM on October 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
I watched the infomercial tonight. He specifically promised the daisy farting.
posted by middleclasstool at 8:22 PM on October 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
jessamynAdmin: "10faceted search will do this. I know I sound all "oh when Obama is president we will all fart daisies" about this, but I think a better search will do this generally, and a bunch of other stuff specifically. I agree, it would be useful."
Sounds like it could possibly smell nice, but mightn't it hurt? I know I'm old school, but I'm fine with a Glade plug-in.
Am I recalling incorrectly, or did I hear many, many, podcasts ago that there is something you can write your own SQL queries against?
posted by Rafaelloello at 8:27 PM on October 29, 2008
Sounds like it could possibly smell nice, but mightn't it hurt? I know I'm old school, but I'm fine with a Glade plug-in.
Am I recalling incorrectly, or did I hear many, many, podcasts ago that there is something you can write your own SQL queries against?
posted by Rafaelloello at 8:27 PM on October 29, 2008
There's the infodump and I seem to recall that someone built a web type interface to some of it. Anyone have the links handy? It's a bit outside my general baliwick.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:30 PM on October 29, 2008
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:30 PM on October 29, 2008
Maybe we should have a "fellate" button? Cuz that would be cool.
posted by vronsky at 8:33 PM on October 29, 2008
posted by vronsky at 8:33 PM on October 29, 2008
It's null terminated who built a Mefi Data Playground web query interface, but it is down indefinitely, unfortunately.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:36 PM on October 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:36 PM on October 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
Would a wet daisy fart be referred to in polite company as watering the flowers?
posted by Rafaelloello at 8:37 PM on October 29, 2008
posted by Rafaelloello at 8:37 PM on October 29, 2008
It would be very useful to have a simple way to delete all of the favorites you've given to a particular user. You know, for situations where someone pisses you off and doesn't deserve your favorites anymore.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*coughs violently, wheezing, turns bright red*
Shit, that might actually work. If I keep re-reading this, I might actually die laughing.
posted by loquacious at 9:01 PM on October 29, 2008
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*coughs violently, wheezing, turns bright red*
Shit, that might actually work. If I keep re-reading this, I might actually die laughing.
posted by loquacious at 9:01 PM on October 29, 2008
loquacious: "34It would be very useful to have a simple way to delete all of the favorites you've given to a particular user. You know, for situations where someone pisses you off and doesn't deserve your favorites anymore.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*coughs violently, wheezing, turns bright red*
Shit, that might actually work. If I keep re-reading this, I might actually die laughing."
A deflationary spiral of favorites. Favorites would disappear from the planet. Kind of like dollars.
posted by Rafaelloello at 9:06 PM on October 29, 2008
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*coughs violently, wheezing, turns bright red*
Shit, that might actually work. If I keep re-reading this, I might actually die laughing."
A deflationary spiral of favorites. Favorites would disappear from the planet. Kind of like dollars.
posted by Rafaelloello at 9:06 PM on October 29, 2008
A deflationary spiral of favorites. Favorites would disappear from the planet. Kind of like dollars.
But some users are too important to be allowed to fail - there's a danger that this would cause the whole site would collapse. Matt would be forced to step in and prop them up from the Admins' Central Reserve of Favourites.
posted by UbuRoivas at 9:44 PM on October 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
But some users are too important to be allowed to fail - there's a danger that this would cause the whole site would collapse. Matt would be forced to step in and prop them up from the Admins' Central Reserve of Favourites.
posted by UbuRoivas at 9:44 PM on October 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
SHIT!!! tehloki just lost his AAA favourite ranking!!!
posted by UbuRoivas at 10:23 PM on October 29, 2008
posted by UbuRoivas at 10:23 PM on October 29, 2008
There's no easy way to find out.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it took me less than five minutes to find all of Cortex's posts/comments that dejardins favourited (A bit longer to compose this comment, but hey, it keeps my mind off the election for a while). Maybe fiveminutes doesn't qualify as "easy"?
posted by Neiltupper at 1:22 AM on October 30, 2008
Maybe I'm missing something, but it took me less than five minutes to find all of Cortex's posts/comments that dejardins favourited (A bit longer to compose this comment, but hey, it keeps my mind off the election for a while). Maybe fiveminutes doesn't qualify as "easy"?
posted by Neiltupper at 1:22 AM on October 30, 2008
I love it when a thread derails into geography. Personally, I think every thread should do that. New pony request: auto-favorite any post or comment that mentions maps or geography.
posted by desjardins at 7:07 AM on October 30, 2008
posted by desjardins at 7:07 AM on October 30, 2008
Neiltupper: what was your method? Digging through my 1000+ favorites?
posted by desjardins at 7:08 AM on October 30, 2008
posted by desjardins at 7:08 AM on October 30, 2008
(just realized that I've left myself wide open to comments on my embarrassing favorites)
posted by desjardins at 7:10 AM on October 30, 2008
posted by desjardins at 7:10 AM on October 30, 2008
Maybe I'm missing something, but it took me less than five minutes to find all of Cortex's posts/comments that dejardins favourited
Would it take the same effort to find all the favorited comments that mentioned "butt"? If so, why do we need search?
posted by smackfu at 7:19 AM on October 30, 2008
Would it take the same effort to find all the favorited comments that mentioned "butt"? If so, why do we need search?
posted by smackfu at 7:19 AM on October 30, 2008
Neiltupper: what was your method? Digging through my 1000+ favorites?
Nothing elegant or sophisticated - just brute force. You have 28 pages of favourites. I simply viewed each page and searched it for cortex using the Firefox "find" search. Part of the problem I believe is that MetaFilter's search only returns plain text results, but not links. But it works great for smackfu's example. It took under 30 seconds to find the three posts you favourited that contain the (plain text) butt.
That's not to say that don't support the pony. Five minutes to search a canonical list on a site is an eternity.
posted by Neiltupper at 8:00 AM on October 30, 2008
I TOTALLY support this pony. (I've been meaning to ask for it myself...thanks, desjardins.)
posted by desuetude at 8:01 AM on October 30, 2008
posted by desuetude at 8:01 AM on October 30, 2008
(just realized that I've left myself wide open to comments on my embarrassing favorites)
I think your favorites are awesome, personally.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:22 AM on October 30, 2008
I think your favorites are awesome, personally.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:22 AM on October 30, 2008
<kindergarten>ooooo, desjardins has a boyfriend! </kindergarten>
posted by blue_beetle at 8:33 AM on October 30, 2008
posted by blue_beetle at 8:33 AM on October 30, 2008
It would be very useful to have a simple way to delete all of the favorites you've given to a particular user. You know, for situations where someone pisses you off and doesn't deserve your favorites anymore.
Were you mauled by kittens as a child? Is that why you are such an advocate of feeding them into wood-chippers? You really should just let the hate go, they can't hurt you any more.
posted by quin at 9:59 AM on October 30, 2008
Were you mauled by kittens as a child? Is that why you are such an advocate of feeding them into wood-chippers? You really should just let the hate go, they can't hurt you any more.
posted by quin at 9:59 AM on October 30, 2008
I'm surprised I don't have more favorites with the word "butt." Did you search "ass"?
I have to say, if cortex and my husband were in a duel, I think cortex might win. I bet he'd just shove a donut in my husband's face and sucker punch him.
posted by desjardins at 11:26 AM on October 30, 2008
I have to say, if cortex and my husband were in a duel, I think cortex might win. I bet he'd just shove a donut in my husband's face and sucker punch him.
posted by desjardins at 11:26 AM on October 30, 2008
I'm probably hopeless in a fight, actually. I'd suckerhug him instead.
posted by cortex (staff) at 11:27 AM on October 30, 2008
posted by cortex (staff) at 11:27 AM on October 30, 2008
As long as you don't punch him in the dick.
posted by desjardins at 12:40 PM on October 30, 2008
posted by desjardins at 12:40 PM on October 30, 2008
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posted by smackfu at 4:06 PM on October 29, 2008