Browsing AskMe Questions for Resolutions

October 19, 2012 2:54 PM

Feature request! For the AskMe "My Favorites" page, would it be possible to mark best-answered questions with the same little green checkmark that appears next to best-answered questions on AskMe's main page? I often favorite questions because (while I never would have thought to ask them in the first place) they pique my curiosity once I read them, and I mean to come back to them later. A checkmark in "My Favorites" would be an easy way to see, from that page, whether such questions had been answered since I'd favorited them. Thanks for your consideration, and I hope all is well with you. I send my fondest regards to you and yours.
posted by Greg Nog to Feature Requests at 2:54 PM (34 comments total)

Would love to see this feature. I would give this pony a ribbon.
posted by arcticseal at 2:57 PM on October 19, 2012

Same to you, Mr. Nog. Thanks for the kind words, and consider the sentiment mutual.
posted by laconic skeuomorph at 2:58 PM on October 19, 2012

I'm not sure we could give it the same green checkmark since that's definitely a "this has a best answer" indicator which is different from the resolved tag. But there should be a way to indicate "This user has marked their question resolved" in some visual way I think.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 3:03 PM on October 19, 2012

Awww, this was really nicely worded, and it's a pretty pony, and I would pet it and feed it carrots and sugar cubes. Well done, Mr. Nog.
posted by misha at 3:05 PM on October 19, 2012 [2 favorites]

Even if a question hasn't been marked "resolved", it would still be lovely to see whether it has Best Answers; in this one, for example, there's no Resolved tag, though the OP seems to think that some of the answers were feasible enough to be maybe the right answer.

(I used the above as my example because the screaming is really spooky and hellishly unearthly-sounding!)
posted by Greg Nog at 3:07 PM on October 19, 2012 [1 favorite]

Ah, pb has informed me that I have misread this question entirely. That seems like a great idea!
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 3:09 PM on October 19, 2012 [1 favorite]

my pony's breath smells like pony food
posted by elizardbits at 3:13 PM on October 19, 2012

A pony avoids the glue factory! A pony avoids the glue factory!
posted by m@f at 3:13 PM on October 19, 2012

A pony takes MASSIVE damage [80] from the glue factory's bash.

A pony looks somehwat wounded.

A pony casts heal and glows blue.
posted by griphus at 3:16 PM on October 19, 2012 [4 favorites]

Sure! I just added the best answer checkmark to that page.
posted by pb (staff) at 3:17 PM on October 19, 2012 [10 favorites]

Sorry it took so long!
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 3:22 PM on October 19, 2012 [13 favorites]

Was that the fastest pony arrival ever?
posted by bilabial at 3:38 PM on October 19, 2012 [1 favorite]

Hey, thanks, pb! It's true what they say about you: while you wield terrifying amounts of chthonic cyberpower, you're also capable of great kindness. I am as contented with how this all played out as a chinchilla that is softly bumping its forehead against that of another chinchilla.
posted by Greg Nog at 3:52 PM on October 19, 2012 [10 favorites]

I love this pony!
posted by insectosaurus at 3:56 PM on October 19, 2012

I just clicked on My Favourites just to glory in the beauty of the checkmark. Thanks pb!
posted by arcticseal at 4:01 PM on October 19, 2012

Awesome. 21 minutes!

Greg, can you ask PB for a free bottle of scotch for all members on the anniversary of their joining? Age of scotch should be years since joining * ten.
posted by bondcliff at 4:02 PM on October 19, 2012

That pony certainly didn't require much wheedling. Easy pony.
posted by heyho at 4:03 PM on October 19, 2012

This pony deserves sweet carrots and a garland of roses. What a winner!
posted by bearwife at 4:09 PM on October 19, 2012

LOOK UNDER YOUR CHAIRS

YOU GET A PONY

AND YOU GET A PONY

EVERYBODY GETS A PONY
posted by The Whelk at 4:10 PM on October 19, 2012 [5 favorites]

My pony looks like a cat!
posted by rtha at 4:24 PM on October 19, 2012 [2 favorites]

Doesn't Mr. Nog sound dirty? Or is it just me?

It's just me, isn't it?
posted by yaymukund at 4:25 PM on October 19, 2012

Oh my gosh, this is the most charming MeTa I've seen in a while.
posted by sweetkid at 4:31 PM on October 19, 2012 [1 favorite]

LET US CHANNEL THESE GOOD VIBES INTO A WEAPON OF UNIMAGINABLE DESTRUCTIVE POWER
posted by The Whelk at 4:35 PM on October 19, 2012 [1 favorite]

Mr. Nog can quote you both the Rules of Acquisition AND Star Fleet Regulations.
posted by m@f at 4:48 PM on October 19, 2012 [2 favorites]

There is some weird cross-species action going on in this thread that I would be totally uncool with if it involved anything other than a chinchilla. As it stands? Hot.
posted by carsonb at 5:44 PM on October 19, 2012

I'm picturing Greg Nog riding a unicorn down a cobblestone street, cape flung out behind him, to the tune of My Little Pony, through the streets of New York, with some giant man photographing him in the rain under a sodium light, and trying to sell it to the Daily News.

"It was him, I tell you! The Greg Nog! And he had a pony!"
posted by Marie Mon Dieu at 5:50 PM on October 19, 2012 [1 favorite]

how did these people get their ponies wedged into their apartments and why
posted by catlet at 8:48 PM on October 19, 2012 [1 favorite]

Wait which version of the My Little Pony theme?

This is vitally important.
posted by The Whelk at 8:50 PM on October 19, 2012

Nothing stops the smooze grar.
posted by mccarty.tim at 9:26 PM on October 19, 2012 [1 favorite]

The Whelk: "Wait which version of the My Little Pony theme?

This is vitally important."

G4 Full-Length, just for you.
posted by radwolf76 at 1:05 AM on October 20, 2012

I'm picturing Greg Nog riding a unicorn down a cobblestone street, cape flung out behind him

you should see his Data costume. Simply preen.
posted by clavdivs at 8:18 AM on October 20, 2012

Good idea.
posted by eq21 at 8:41 PM on October 21, 2012

Now that this request is all ponied, isn't it time that we pony this pony and pony pony pony? Pony pony pony! Pony.

Also: powerful anti-psychotics for all!
posted by blue_beetle at 1:33 AM on October 22, 2012

Marie Mon Dieu: "I'm picturing Greg Nog riding a unicorn down a cobblestone street"

So if one is riding a pony/unicorn/mastodon in a kilt, does one ride side-saddle? Or do you just let it all flap in the breeze?
posted by Grither at 4:45 AM on October 22, 2012