MetaTalk posts tagged with profiles

Should the profiles of deceased MeFites be preserved?

Faint of Butt — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:09:02 -0800

When an account is disabled, all the profile information disappears. Might it be better to preserve the information when the account is disabled due to the owner's death? Under most circumstances, it makes sense to delete the profile information when an account is disabled. For example, it's appropriate when someone wants to leave MetaFilter of their own volition and doesn't want to leave any trace. It's also appropriate when a spammer or scammer shows up and gets the banhammer, and we want to flush them down the memory hole. This morning, though, seized by a fit of 10th-anniversary nostalgia, I was browsing through the wiki and found the page of deceased MeFites. There are good people listed there, people who were appreciated for their contributions to the community: Radio7, alicila, poopy, Cancergiggles and Soulbee, just to name a few. But if you visit their profile pages, hardly anything remains except for their post histories and a blunt "This account is disabled," indistinguishable from the page of a banned self-linker. Even if it's too late to restore the profiles of those who have already passed on, perhaps, in the future, when we lose a good MeFite, his or her profile could remain as a memorial? Maybe a note could even be added to indicate the date on which MetaFilter learned of the death. It would be respectful and appropriate, I think. I know it's what I would want.

interesting profiles

wheelieman — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:47:33 -0800

We have profiles: I know of Mutant's jaw dropping profile and crunchland's informitive one. What other user's profiles are worth checking out? People with pink backgrounds and/or consuming large doughnuts need not apply, I know about you already :).

How do I get last.fm tracks to show up on my profile?

arimathea — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:55:31 -0800

What's the secret to getting last.fm played tracks to show up on my profile? I've checked out this thread and added my information and made sure that information was public, but I still don't see tracks on my profile several hours after I did all the right things. Is there a way to debug this, or am I missing something?

On MeFi, everyone knows you're dog.

grumblebee — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:19:55 -0800

Greasemonkey: here's a script that displays profile pics next to posts. Cortex warned me some people will hate it and want to roast me alive. To those people, let me suggest a side dish of Potatoes au Gratin and a glass of Merlot. I've had this installed for a week. It's subtly but profoundly changed my MeFi experience. I'm not sure if it's made it better or worse. I'm not sure if I'll keep it installed or not. I noticed that almost everyone on MeTa has a pic, only about 40% of those on MeFi have them and most people who post to AskMe don't. I'll leave the interpretation of those stats to brighter minds. I'm just learning Greasemonkey coding for the first time, so there may be some rough edges to my script. Enjoy. Or not.

Muxtape

empath — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:12:09 -0800

Can we add muxtape as a social service for the profiles? I bet a lot of mefites muxtapes up.

The daft bit at the top

sgt.serenity — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:19:59 -0800

Hello - is there no way to link to sites on our profiles or am I just not clever enough ? Is it stopped now ? was there a reason for not letting people link to sites on their profiles or is it just a case of me not knowing any html whatsoever ? Anyway, you're all looking wonderful this evening.

Numeristerical!

Rhaomi — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:43:57 -0800

Are there any Mefi user accounts that have a coincidental (or intentional) relationship with their user number? This comment by Burhanistan makes me wonder if there are any user accounts on Mefi that have some connection to their user number, either through serendipity (say, user numbers that are the same as one's zip code or date of birth) or by design, where they play off the name in a witty way (for example?). Also, now that Mefi is getting more and more members, and since the $5 fee turns many people away mid-signup, leaving many empty user profiles behind, how hard would it be to snag an "interesting" number? Is there even a way to keep track of the newest users, short of typing in higher and higher numbers after http://www.metafilter.com/user/ ? Will this "flaw" in the process that creates ever-larger swathes of nonexistent profiles ever be corrected?

Error when filling out your birthday in the preferences.

BuddhaInABucket — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:21:40 -0800

In your preferences, if you select a month and year for your birthday, but not a specific day of the month, you get an error message. Could that be changed so you have the option to fill in only the month/year?

Twitter on profiles isn't updating

Mwongozi — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:53:05 -0800

My profile is showing my "last" Twitter status as an update posted two months ago. I've made plenty of updates since then...

nuts

null terminated — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:58:21 -0800

On the profile page, the box next to "gender" says "(this is free-form, go nuts)". I've always taken this to mean "go wild", but I realized it could also be a rah-rah rooting-for-the-male-team statement. Am I losing my mind? (go nuts!)

A couple minor feature requests fulfilled

mathowie — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:57:13 -0800

Slight preferences tweaks: birthday (year optional) and relationship status (datingfilter!) were just added. My profile shows what it might look like to logged-in users.

BIRTHDAY PONY?

[NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:25:59 -0800

Birthday notification? Hey, it's my birthday!! No, it really is. And several mefites who I'm connected to on Facebook, etc. sent me messages of support as I turned a grotesque 29. I'd like to be able to do the same for them-- but I'm rarely logged in on any of those social networking sites. Wouldn't it be great if one of the profile information fields contained our birthdate (month and day, year optional)? Even if it wasn't necessarily made visible on our profiles, we could still enable an optional notification on the contacts sidebar: "Today is so-and-so's birthday." I know that making MetaFilter too networky rubs people the wrong way, but something small (and optional) like this would provide a modest new outlet for friendly interactions (something metafilter could use more of lately).

My Ask MeFi

pb — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:05:54 -0800

New Feature: My Ask MeFi A few weeks ago, we discussed a "Questions You Might be Interested In" feature to help filter the front page of Ask Metafilter by interest. After playing around with a recommendation system, we decided to let you filter the site to your interests by choosing your favorite tags and categories. You can get started by setting your preferences and then reading the new tab on the Ask front page: My Ask. The new page includes a sidebar with recommended questions from the past three days based on your Ask Metafilter answering/favoriting history. Questions only show up in the sidebar if they aren't already on the main page, so it's simply an extra way to find posts you might have missed. There are bound to be bugs in this new system, so post 'em if you've got 'em.

Who the flickr is that?

nomisxid — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:47:40 -0800

search by flickr name? Assuming they have filled in the profile-bit for flickr-ness, can one search for the corresponding mefi-profile, from a given flickr-name?

They left when?

nevercalm — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:36:15 -0800

We have a "joined" date in user profiles. Can we have a "left" date for the pushers of the big red button?

Who are you and why do I like you so much?

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:55:37 -0800

In a large and steadily-growing community, and possibly because I'm getting old and stuff, I find myself having trouble sometimes remembering who said what, especially when it's a newer user. So, a possibly small and easy-to-implement feature request. Here's what I was just thinking about. I keep seeing usernames who I recall having strong feelings about, based on things they have said, but can't for the life of my remember why. So I thought it might be neat and easy and not very expensive in terms of database hits if, when I visited someone's profile, there was a field, visible only to me, as the logged-in user, that said something like: You have favorited this user's contributions X times where 'this user' is the person whose profile I am looking at, and X, is well, the count of the number of times I've favorited their stuff, and maybe a link to a view of my favorited items, restricted to the ones they've written. I'm open to better ideas for a similar kind of thing, of course. Not the most urgent of requests, I know, but it'd be kind of nice, and maybe easy to knock out in terms of code.

Usernames on the 'who favorited this post' page

empath — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:38:40 -0800

Minor usability quibble: When you're looking at who favorites a post, and click a username, it shows their favorites instead of showing their profile page, like every other linked username on the site does. Maybe a different link to show their favorites from that page?

Please bring my pony back to life!

grouse — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:08:14 -0800

Fields in user profiles used to have a different color background if they contained information only visible to logged in community members. Can we have this back please? It was a good reminder of what information shouldn't necessarily be posted on public pages, and made it easier not to out people accidentally.

Nice pics!

mathowie — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:44:57 -0800

y'all are a sexy bunch of people. (updated nightly, a dump of everyone's uploaded profile photo)

While I'm at work, I don't want to know you're a dog.

desjardins — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:02:44 -0800

I would like an opt-out of viewing profile pictures. I use the plain template at work, and the images, while usually SFW, are really, um, attention-grabbing. Yes, I know I can block ALL images in my browser, but I'd rather not.

pictures in profiles

yhbc — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:08:46 -0800

Uploading a picture to your profile? UPLOADING A PICTURE TO YOUR PROFILE! Did I miss this, or is this a Brand New Thing? Thanks!

Playlist pony

klangklangston — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:28:16 -0800

Last.fm pony please: I'd like to embed the "Recently Listened" (or similar) chart into my profile, much like the flickr photo scroll. (Alternately, if someone knows how to do that now, I'd appreciate it). Today it's mostly Cobra Killer, I think.

Get to Know Your Fellow MeFites.

Effigy2000 — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:53:24 -0800

We have a fandom post feature now, which of course is excellent. Now how about a random user feature? It could be called 'Get to Know A MeFite' or something like that. I think there are a lot of interesting user profile pages which many people have not and may not ever see, which is a shame, and this would be a potential way to highlight some of them. As an added bonus, this feature could lead to more Metafilter meet-ups as people stumble upon other users who they may not have known lived so close by. It could also lead people to explore their randomly chosen MeFite's posting history which may, in turn, lead many to discover several excellent (and awful) posts, questions and MeTa screeds which they may never have come across before.

Mass update of public facing info

dance — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:48:07 -0800

I had this idea when encountering the problem of wanting to contact a metafilter member of their public facing email address not being filled in... How about doing what PayPal, banks and universities do - they present a user on login with a page which they click 'confirm' on to get to the usual start page. On the confirm page would be form fields with the information metafilter currently has for them: lat, lon flickr ID email address URL etc it would give them a chance to update it (and the email address field would have some *decent* obfuscation, either images ala Facebook or the current SOTA JavaScript). I think often the reason this isn't filled in isn't out of choice it's because the user in question simply hasn't got around to it, doesn't know he/she has a profile or hasn't changed it since they first enrolled. What say you? I don't think doing this would cheese people off and I think it would really be a boon for the site.

del.icio.us profiles

tylermoody — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:38:38 -0800

I imagine that some of my fellow mefites, collectors of the Best of the Web, would have great del.icio.us accounts for me to pick through. I'm not getting enough use out of their networking feature, either. Link your profiles! Here's me.