Comments on: Sort favorites by author?

Sort favorites by author?

etc. — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:10:06 -0800

Is there a way to sort my favorites by author, or to get a tabulation of quantity by author?

I recently noticed how many times I seem to favorite the same few authors and was wondering if there's a way to see those trends easily.

By: gman

gman — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:30:34 -0800

etc.: I recently noticed how many times I seem to favorite the same few authors and was wondering if there's a way to see those trends easily.

AskMe questions/answers, MeTa posts/comments, MeFi posts/comments for you. Only the favourites you've given for posts on the blue have any repeat receivers, and even there, the most you've given anyone is five in the 10+ years you've been here. Basically what I'm saying is that you're stingy.

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:30:41 -0800

Short answer, there isn't a way to do it on the site directly and we don't intend to add that functionality. However, someone wrote a script to do that - probably based on the infodump - and if my search-fu is up to the task I'll find the thread where that happened. Otherwise, someone will no doubt beat me to it.

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:31:11 -0800

...and gman beat me to it. Nice.

By: LobsterMitten

LobsterMitten — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:31:11 -0800

A while ago I asked how to search the posts I have favorited, to see how many there are by a given author. That post shows how to use the Infodumpster to do it. I don't know about how to extract trends over time if that's something you're interested in.

By: empath

empath — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:31:43 -0800

Here you go.

By: item

item — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:41:38 -0800

...and gman beat me to it. Nice.

gman *is* nice, yes. At least that's what I read written in a bathroom stall in southern Ontario.

By: etc.

etc. — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:58:53 -0800

Thanks. And I prefer to think of myself as frugal.

By: etc.

etc. — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 18:12:20 -0800

I did not know the dumpster was so user friendly. Thanks again.

By: batmonkey

batmonkey — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 18:29:50 -0800

I always forget how much fun it is to play with infodumpster.

By: Miko

Miko — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:45:12 -0800

I didn't know infodumpster was so easy to use, either. I was picturing some enormous spreadsheet requiring code to use it, or something.

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 07:34:36 -0800

Nope, the dumpster is great. Note that it's a custom search front end that uses date from the Infodump itself, which is indeed a collection of enormous tab-separated data files.

The nice thing about the raw Infodump is you can do anything you like with it; the downside is you have to actually do whatever you want. It's provided directly by the site.

The Infodumpster is a great prefab tool for playing with the data a bit without having to muck around with scripting or spreadsheets or whatever. It's written and maintained by Combustible Edison Lighthouse, who is awesome, and just imports new Infodump data on a regular basis as we regenerate it.

By: muddgirl

muddgirl — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 08:53:26 -0800

Whose comments were most favorited by muddgirl in MetaTalk?

FavoritesUser
27jessamyn
18cortex

Damn, am I a kiss-ass or what?

By: gman

gman — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 09:14:17 -0800

I would love to see 'contributions made to favourites received' stats for our two recent additions to the mod staff, both prior to becoming moderators and after becoming moderators. Anyone?

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 09:46:51 -0800

That'd be pretty interesting - I've actually commented on my impressions before, but never bothered to run the numbers. April 10 was when I was officially introduced, so it's probably a more or less useful date to start from.