WTF? I turned back on favorite counts and now it's back to showing me "has favorites" WHAT GIVES METAFILTER?
posted by xmutex on Nov 6, 2009 - 99 comments

I just noticed "has favorites". When did that start and why? Just about every post has favorites, doesn't it? Personally, I liked the old system better. I just read the number of favorites and I knew whether or not I should favorite it too. The way it is now, how am I supposed to know what's good or bad without actually going in and counting them?
posted by Mike Buechel on Nov 2, 2009 - 8 comments

Can we vote about this new favorites policy? [more inside]
posted by kingjoeshmoe on Nov 1, 2009 - 3 comments

For the month of November, we're going to try an experiment with how favorites are displayed. [Note: if this whole experiment is driving you crazy, here's a note on reverting the changes.] [more inside]
posted by cortex on Oct 31, 2009 - 2450 comments

ProbablyReallyObvious Filter: While perusing the MetaFilter front page, I clicked something that led me to this extremely useful two column layout of popularly favorited comments and links. What did I click on?
posted by lalex on Oct 13, 2009 - 18 comments

Suggestion:We have a tag cloud - how about a favorites cloud? [more inside]
posted by bigmusic on Aug 22, 2009 - 20 comments

stupid "popular favorite" question of the day: why can't I "add to favorites" from the popular favorites page? OK talk to you later.
posted by disclaimer on Aug 16, 2009 - 20 comments

Under popular favorites why is there "n favorites in the last 24 hours"? Is that of interest to any of you? I'd rather see " n answers in the last 24 hours", so I know whether or not I should revisit a thread.
posted by qsysopr on Aug 13, 2009 - 101 comments

There's a bug in the links on the MetaTalk "my favorites" tab. [more inside]
posted by flod logic on Jul 10, 2009 - 13 comments

Pony request: We can already sort the posts and comments in search results by date or by relevance. Would it be possible (or even desirable) to sort by the number of favorites each item has? [more inside]
posted by Rhaomi on Jul 6, 2009 - 32 comments

Just the curiosity of a self-obsessed "Favorited by others" watcher: I've noticed, on a couple occasions, my 'favorited by others' number will drop by a couple digits. Not a lot; I think the last time it was from 95 to 93 or something. I'm not favorited often, and I don't think I've had any posts deleted recently, so I find it odd. Can somebody "anti-favorite" you, or are things being deleted in older stuff than I've noticed?
posted by AzraelBrown on Jun 30, 2009 - 47 comments

There are about six different places where favorites live, and I often find myself confused as hell as to the differences between the various tabs and links. [more inside]
posted by WCityMike on Jun 18, 2009 - 58 comments

This is a kinda cool concept applied to MeFi: background bars for posts and comments (based on favorites) [more inside]
posted by mathowie on Jun 15, 2009 - 76 comments

I've noticed a particularly pronounced uptick in the number of favorites comments are getting. Has Metafilter become funnier, or more salient? Or, you know.
posted by plexi on Jun 12, 2009 - 94 comments

These two pages have pagination at the bottom. These three pages do not. Can we have the same ability to navigate into the past of "favorited by others" as we do for "favorites from," or would that be a huge pain in the ass?
posted by dersins on Apr 29, 2009 - 22 comments

Another favoriting discussion. With very many users having hunderds, and some thousands of favorites, it can become unweildy navigating favorites. If they are indeed intended as a bookmarking tool, it would be helpful to be able to tag them so we can find things we intend to come back to in the future.
posted by bigmusic on Apr 23, 2009 - 95 comments

Are favorites broken? I'm trying to add a few this morning and when i click the +, it just sits there saying "adding..." Same in IE and Firefox. Anyone else having this issue?
posted by KevinSkomsvold on Apr 9, 2009 - 67 comments

Some MeFites use favorites as a show of support, while others (like me!) use them predominantly to save interesting posts and are unable to use them in this manner. Would it be at all possible to add some sort of "agree!" or "thanks!" button in order to separate the two functions? [more inside]
posted by archagon on Mar 28, 2009 - 51 comments

With all this discussion about favorites going on lately, can I ask when, if ever, the plan to add the ability to tag your favorites will be implemented, as mentioned by #1 here. [more inside]
posted by Effigy2000 on Mar 11, 2009 - 101 comments

Bug report: The preview function is disabling some features. [more inside]
posted by Rhaomi on Mar 11, 2009 - 16 comments

Favoritism is killing Mefi. Please kill favorites. [more inside]
posted by sidr on Mar 10, 2009 - 389 comments

In Monday's "meh" thread I quoted and linked to Sparx's clever 2007 verse on the subject. My comment, which added nothing original, unaccountably picked up some favorates. It may be a small matter but these favorites are surely Sparx's, not mine. Is it a lot of work to reassign 'em?
posted by jfuller on Mar 4, 2009 - 96 comments

CAN I HAZ MORE FAVORITES PLEEZE? [more inside]
posted by liza on Mar 4, 2009 - 121 comments

Can the you guys put some at least put some oak leaf clusters or something on You's profile page - for this? [more inside]
posted by Kid Charlemagne on Feb 25, 2009 - 257 comments

"You hit your favorite limit for the day." WTF? Can someone please tell me why we have a limit, what the limit is, and why the hell it's not in the FAQ? [more inside]
posted by marble on Feb 18, 2009 - 144 comments

Clicking the plus sign to favorite a comment sends me to the top of the page and doesn't add the favorite. [more inside]
posted by EarBucket on Feb 14, 2009 - 41 comments

Incredibly minor design detail: Could the [add to favorites] button be switched with [!], so that [add to favorites] is adjacent to 'x people marked this as a favorite'? I'm always hitting the flag button when I want to favorite something because it's right next to favorites. [more inside]
posted by oneirodynia on Jan 7, 2009 - 43 comments

When you click on a "favorited X times" link, you are taken to a page with the title "All users marked nnnnn as favorite" (example). Should it not say "All users who marked nnnnnn as a favorite"? (The in-page text heading is "X users marked this as a favorite:", FWIW)
posted by No-sword on Jan 3, 2009 - 31 comments

What's up with the way favorites are now displayed on Popular Favorites? (See screenshot.) [more inside]
posted by nitsuj on Dec 24, 2008 - 23 comments

Same old "tried to add favorite, bumped to top of page" stuff. [more inside]
posted by Sys Rq on Dec 4, 2008 - 18 comments

Pony: Unless I'm wrong, it seems that inclusion on the 'popular posts' page/rss feed is limited to highly favorited threads. Can we get threads with a lot of comments included on that page/feed as well, even if they don't have a lot of favorites? Or a separate page for that sort of thing?
posted by Who_Am_I on Nov 21, 2008 - 9 comments

We have a most favorites. Can we get a most favorited comments on the green, or am I just missing it?
posted by arimathea on Nov 21, 2008 - 18 comments

I musta pissed someone off... [more inside]
posted by orthogonality on Nov 13, 2008 - 317 comments

It's possible to find the most favorited post of all time but is it possible to find the most favorited comment of all time? Or a ranking system that does something similar to the post system (week, 30 days, all time) for comments?
posted by bodywithoutorgans on Nov 13, 2008 - 34 comments

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. [more inside]
posted by desjardins on Oct 29, 2008 - 52 comments

Pony request: favorite comments threaded by post [more inside]
posted by smartyboots on Oct 12, 2008 - 8 comments

Bricka bracka, firecracka, sis poom bah! Cortex 10,000 favorites, Rah, Rah, Rah! From the 1st favorite he received (Jaltcoh), to the one that's currently the 10,000th (rossination), Sir Cortex has reached a milestone in favoritivity. Thanks for being a magnificent part of the axis of awesome.
posted by cashman on Oct 1, 2008 - 135 comments

I have a comment on the Popular Favorites page [Yay! me] Next to the favorite count it has [remove], even though I haven't favorited it. [more inside]
posted by tellurian on Sep 29, 2008 - 8 comments

Favorites bug-report? [more inside]
posted by allkindsoftime on Sep 22, 2008 - 18 comments

Recent Favorites appears to be broken, for me at least. [more inside]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken on Sep 16, 2008 - 3 comments

Pony request: The ability to filter favorites by tags. Or is this already available and I'm missing something? [more inside]
posted by youcancallmeal on Aug 21, 2008 - 11 comments

Is there a way to remove a post from the My Favorites tab in Recent Activity while keeping the post as a favorite?
posted by lalex on Jul 29, 2008 - 7 comments

Astro Zombie had a comment with 15 favorites in MetaFilter. 5 hours ago
Astro Zombie had a comment with 41 favorites in MetaFilter. 6 hours ago
Astro Zombie had a comment with 23 favorites in MetaFilter. 6 hours ago

How do I get rid of this Astro Zombie character, anyway? [more inside]
posted by yhbc on Jul 28, 2008 - 77 comments

I recently found the Weekly Favorites page. Is there a way to get the all-time best of the best?
posted by taumeson on Jul 7, 2008 - 32 comments

Two new features: resolved question sidebar (and feed) and RSS feeds for the Popular favorites page. All is explained within. [more inside]
posted by mathowie on Jun 17, 2008 - 62 comments

My big clumsy thumbs keep accidentally favoriting things when reading MeFi on my iPhone. [more inside]
posted by Enroute on Apr 25, 2008 - 47 comments

Filter filter. Assuming that favorited comments are better than non-favorited comments, wouldn't the next logical step for the favorites system be to provide a way to distill threads down to their essential goodness? How about adding a drop down box at the top of each thread, letting the reader choose to filter out all the comments that don't make the grade -- displaying only the comments that have X number of favorites or more.
posted by Dave Faris on Apr 7, 2008 - 43 comments

What makes a favourite favourite? [more inside]
posted by Fiasco da Gama on Mar 24, 2008 - 82 comments

Being vain, of course, I noticed this morning that someone favorited my song. The details show two favorites, though, one of which is from 2006. Which I am fairly certain is not the case, unless somebody's got a sweet time machine. [more inside]
posted by uncleozzy on Mar 19, 2008 - 57 comments

Not another favourites pony: Tag clouds for favourites? [more inside]
posted by Phire on Mar 11, 2008 - 23 comments