Favorite favoriting

March 19, 2010 9:30 PM

It might be fun to add another person's Favorites page to one's own Favorites, yes?
posted by swift to Feature Requests at 9:30 PM (22 comments total)

I'm not sure what you mean, but yes, I would like to add Aztro Zombie and The Pink Supeheroes's favorites to my own.
posted by Dumsnill at 9:37 PM on March 19, 2010

What?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 9:39 PM on March 19, 2010 [1 favorite]

I want there to be a link on my profile page for "AskChococat."
posted by chococat at 9:42 PM on March 19, 2010 [1 favorite]

And where is that thing that prevents me from misspelling popular user-names?
posted by Dumsnill at 9:45 PM on March 19, 2010

What?

It believe swift wants to be able to click [add to favorites] on someone else's list of favorites. That way, when browsing his own favorites he'll see a link to [User's Favorites] in his list of favorite posts/comments and remember to browse them.

Because a list of favorites isn't a post or a comment, there's no existing spot for it. And we don't have a way to favorite an arbitrary page, they're really designed for MetaFilter posts or comments. I think a generic bookmark service might work better for this.
posted by pb (staff) at 9:47 PM on March 19, 2010

Yes, that's it. And okie-doke.
posted by swift at 9:50 PM on March 19, 2010

And where is that thing that prevents me from misspelling popular user-names?

just remember there's no c in my username. then you'll be all good.
posted by shmegegge at 11:13 PM on March 19, 2010 [1 favorite]

shmegegge: Your username isn't that popular. In fact only one person uses it, on all of Metafilter!
posted by aubilenon at 12:51 AM on March 20, 2010

I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to cross the streams.
posted by 31d1 at 1:21 AM on March 20, 2010

Who would misspell shmcgegge?
posted by jacalata at 2:36 AM on March 20, 2010 [1 favorite]

And what becomes of the broken hearted?
posted by vapidave at 3:05 AM on March 20, 2010

What if the other person uses favorites like "yes, I agree with that comment" and you use favorites for bookmarks and yet another person uses it to track people they don't like? THEN WHAT?

I think the easiest solution is that we come to a consensus on what people should use favorites for.
posted by desjardins at 4:51 AM on March 20, 2010 [1 favorite]

Personally, I'm collecting them to sell on the Metafilter Black Market. The lower a favoriter's user number, the higher the value. In fact there's an entire complex pricing chart you can check out on the secret caba.... Oh crap, I've said too much....
posted by zarq at 6:18 AM on March 20, 2010

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posted by Rock Steady at 6:34 AM on March 20, 2010 [6 favorites]

This is conflating contacts with favorites. Add them as a 'muse' or just a regular old 'contact' and then their favorites are just two clicks from your profile. Also, while browsing other people's favorites there is a very handy [add to favorites] link next to each post/comment on their list so that it can be on your list too!
posted by carsonb at 6:42 AM on March 20, 2010

It's kudos all the way down.
posted by lore at 7:53 AM on March 20, 2010

You know those favorites that are, like, double favorites, you know?
posted by ORthey at 8:01 AM on March 20, 2010

I'm reading The Algebraist now, and I like how the billion-year-old organisms on gas giants use kudos as their hierarchical principle. It took us MeFites a mere decade to get there.
posted by Dumsnill at 9:17 AM on March 20, 2010

And what becomes of the broken hearted?
Cannibalised for parts then render down what's left over for fat.
posted by Abiezer at 10:13 AM on March 20, 2010 [1 favorite]

And when smell-o-vision comes to the internet, we'll rename them "flavorites", right?
posted by abc123xyzinfinity at 12:03 PM on March 20, 2010

then perhaps there would be a MeTa on the etiquette of favoriting one's own favorites list and a few people would become offended that favoriting favorites was used in this manner.
posted by archivist at 3:30 PM on March 20, 2010

WE ARE METAFILTER. YOUR FAVORITES WILL BE ASSIMILATED. YOUR DISTINCTIVE POSTS AND COMMENTS WILL BE ADDED TO OUR OWN. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
posted by FishBike at 7:14 PM on March 20, 2010