MetaTalk posts tagged with popularity

Popularity Context

Riki tiki — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:43:11 -0800

Pony: Can the popular comments RSS feed include the title of the threads to which those comments were posted? Currently, entries in the popular comments RSS feed appear as follows:

By PosterName in MeFi by PosterName Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Could we include the thread title? It would give some extra context for people who read the comments directly in their RSS reader...

By PosterName in "SLYT lolcat PoliticsFilter Blue" [MeFi] by PosterName Yada yada yada yada yada yada yada.

Only counterargument I can see (other than it being yet another feature to implement) is that a lot of people put jokes in the title. But even then, you could recognize threads you're familiar with so you don't have to click through to the actual comment if you already have the context. Thanks!

Refresh my ZombieFilter

sonofslim — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:50:59 -0800

Looking for a specific comment (or entire thread?) either green or blue. It discussed the current popularity of zombie movies as a response to a contemporary fear of anonymity. May have involved references to the MySpace generation. Within the last 6 months, I think. Li'l help?

Relative Tag Text Sizes

five fresh fish — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:25:47 -0800

These days mefi tags all look about the same size (Opera 9.x, OS X). Is tweaking the math easy enough that the tag sizing could once again be a useful indicator of relative popularity? If not, no biggie.

Comments as votes?

three blind mice — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:18:07 -0800

Is it fair to consider the number of comments an FPP receives as an indication of community interest in the post? If so, then it is a pity that eustacescrubb's great find (a real best of the web IMHO) gets only a handful of comments whilst yet another FPP about Ann Coulter frothing at the mouth generates so many.

Hot Topics Request

criticalbill — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:26:56 -0800

OK, now I rarely venture into this grey area here, so I may be way off base but I was kinda thinking - no matter how popular a thread becomes it sinks down and out just as quickly as people post new links/questions/dumb feature requests. I was wondering, would it be possible to have a separate page for MeFi, AskMe and MeTalk in which the threads were listed by most recent comment. This might give threads a bit of a longer lifespan and give an easy way to see what topics are 'hot'

Visualizing most popular tags

Jeff Howard — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:31:10 -0800

Right now, the top-150 tag page seems like sort of a novelty. "Art", "music" and "flash" are going to be huge, but the vast majority of tags seem to get shunted into the lower mid-range such that there's not a lot of perceived difference tag-to-tag or day-to-day. Over time, I'd imagine we'd see the same sort of homogeneity that characterizes the Flickr tag sizes.

The idea is to add some more dimension to the information display, showing not only popularity, but time-based "freshness" of tags and ordering them alphabetically rather than hierarchically for easier browsing ala the full tags listing. If time could be added as an organizational principle, people who aren't obsessive readers of mefi could use the top-150 page as a viable entry point to the site for finding new posts of interest.

Quick-and-dirty HTML example here. (or screenshot).

Click meter?

spacewrench — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 23:50:26 -0800

You know what would be cool? A click count or popularity meter indicator on each FP thread, showing how many people took a look at it. [MI]

Is MetaFilter still a secret?

MiguelCardoso — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 18:58:00 -0800

"One day everyone will rely on Dong Resin's Joint and MetaFilter". Along with other, less interesting sources. This seems to be the gist of this recent Online Journalism Review column by Mark Glaser. And it sounds good to me. So the question is: what danger is there of what we take to be parochial and almost private actually going mainstream? Is MetaFilter still a secret? What is lost and what is gained if it suddenly goes mainstream on us?

Ranking most linked sites? Search posts by site?

Voyageman — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 07:56:55 -0800

Is there a way to see a ranking of the sites most often linked to by mefi members in their posts? (would be interesting to see where mefi takes us every day, sites might find it interesting to, if that mattered) Also, is there a way to search for all mefi posts linked to a particular site? (was going to post something from ApeCulture but then thought maybe everyone goes there already, so why bother) Thanks.

Navel gazing: most popular

Neale — Sun, 02 Sep 2001 22:31:37 -0800

Some navel gazing (hmmmm, perty):

As far as I can tell, Blogger is the most popular weblog app, Metafilter the most popular weblog, and Jason Kottke the most popular weblogger.

Visual help in spotting popular threads

rcade — Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:57:33 -0800

A suggestion for the site: Visual help in spotting the most popular threads on MetaFilter.