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

Can we search our favorites by user name? If not, can we get that feature added? [more inside]
posted by Brandon Blatcher on May 21, 2008 - 49 comments

MOST POPULAR PONY!! I want more functionality for sorting and filtering through the Popular Favorites. I'd like to have a box that allows me to choose: "Most Popular [posts, comments] on [Green, Blue, Black, Grey,...] in the past [n] days." (e.g. so that I could see all the popular AskMe posts side by side, over a longer timeframe, and without them being mixed in with the FPP's; or so that I could view the most listened to tracks on MeMu; or, or, or.)
posted by not_on_display on May 17, 2008 - 22 comments

Is it possible to sort or filter 'users near me' by fields besides distance? Such as 'number of comments/favorites/posts' or 'since last activity' or anything else, really.
posted by empath on Dec 31, 2007 - 14 comments

Two requests: sort threads by number-of-favorites, and a bit of social linking in profiles. [more inside]
posted by c:\awesome on Sep 25, 2007 - 13 comments

Can we please have a way to sort savedfavorites by "Most recently favorited?" Either as a default, or an option? As time passes, more and more active users have multiple pages of comments that have been favorited and it can be difficult to track down what's going on when old threads are suddenly rediscovered.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson on Apr 4, 2007 - 24 comments

Minor problem with ordering posts in MeFi.
posted by NinjaPirate on Feb 24, 2006 - 9 comments

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posted by carsonb on Dec 26, 2005 - 4 comments

1 Etiquette, 1 request.

Etiquette - are you allowed to post to ask.mefi with no comments at all in threads? (looked all over etiquette questions+wiki couldn't find the thread/answer)
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Request:
Any way to filter Ask.ME questions to those questions with <5 (or 10) answers with no best answer?br>
It'd be very useful to see all the questions with only one to four responses...that often get scrolled by.
posted by filmgeek on Dec 18, 2005 - 25 comments

Could a "sort by" box be added to Ask MeFi, ideally by applying a bit of the existing MeFi code? In other words, a dropdown box that would allow me to sort the site by date, my posts, my comments, recent comments, and most comments?

I think it would be very useful, especially considering how many posts have been made on Ask MeFi lately. (I'm surprised this feature hasn't already been added, frankly.)
posted by insomnia_lj on Nov 17, 2005 - 2 comments

A "sort by my comments" thingy on Ask Metafilter would make it easier to monitor threads that one is interested in. There is the potential for abuse, but since the time-limit on questions there has recently been extended, I don't think it would be all that dangerous.
posted by interrobang on Oct 20, 2005 - 13 comments

I know I'm just asking for trouble since this has already been requested a few times before (and those are only the ones I could find), but the questions on AskMe are moving faster than the speed of light and it's becoming more and more difficult to follow some of the interesting discussions. Is it really difficult to put in the "Sort by recent comments" feature on AskMe?
posted by tuxster on Aug 31, 2005 - 8 comments

Why aren't subjects categorized so I don't have to read the news more than once? I see that even here I am expected to categorize my posting. If I could filter out all the news that would be pretty nice.
posted by reflection on Dec 11, 2004 - 15 comments

All MetaFilter Comments by [Member] , ordered by "Date Modified" instead of "Date Created"...what do you think?
posted by LairBob on Jul 20, 2004 - 14 comments

On Twenty Threads? Is this new? Is it customisable? Wassadeal, Matt?
posted by yhbc on Oct 19, 2003 - 44 comments

I recently posted a comment in this thread, but it doesn't show in the 'sort-by-recently-posted' option for the front page of MeFi (which I can't find a way of linking to).

What's up with that?
posted by dash_slot- on Apr 5, 2003 - 10 comments

Has consideration been given previously for a Metafilter sort by most visited/most clicked on front page posts? Thanks.

posted by Voyageman on Mar 9, 2002 - 11 comments

A Metafilter option to sort posts/threads by a given Member's contributions (as that Member can by "My comments") Sort of like Being John Malkovich.
posted by ParisParamus on Feb 15, 2002 - 7 comments

I would, again request the ability to have threads display in reverse chronological order, for ease of following new contributions. Together with an option to only display the the most recent contributions (say, last 10 or 20 within a post) there would be considerable server conservation.
posted by ParisParamus on Jan 6, 2002 - 0 comments

Would it possible, without too awful much work, to add the option to be able to choose from a couple of different sort orders here?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken on Nov 24, 2001 - 9 comments

Some options on the Sort By drop down list don't show by default. After goofing around, the 'my comments' item shows up. Details inside...

posted by daver on Sep 17, 2001 - 4 comments

It would be really helpful if the comments (as seen from the comments by user page) within a thread were in order.

Often I want to go straight to my last comment in a thread, but sometimes finding them in threads where I've commented a bunch is difficult without careful inspection...
posted by fooljay on Sep 15, 2001 - 4 comments

During today's name-server downtime, I noticed that when I connect directly to the IP, I can't list threads by "my comments". The listing menu only had three choices. When I access through "www.metafilter.com" I can; the menu has all four. I have no idea why this might be.
posted by Steven Den Beste on Jul 29, 2001 - 2 comments

Is there a way to find a specific post by post number without knowing which thread it's in? (Other than binary searching by hand through all of MeFi?)
posted by rodii on Jul 11, 2001 - 6 comments

Another teeny-weeny gltich with the sort feature. I had mine set for "most comments". When I went to look at a page and came back, it was still set to most comments although the dropdown menu now says date (my previous setting). This persists through refreshes.

Either "most comments" is sticky and it's not supposed to be (i.e., the menu is right but the URL is wrong), or the dropdown is reverting to the previous setting spontaneously.

As I say, the teeny-weeniest of buglets. (Oh, IE5/MacOS 9.0.4)
posted by rodii on Mar 27, 2001 - 6 comments

How about threads "floating" back up to the top of the page in relation to the intensity of the conversation? Right wing site Free Republic does this
posted by owillis on Dec 13, 2000 - 11 comments

Is it possible to add a search feature that would allow someone to sort links/comments made by username?
posted by tamim on Sep 25, 2000 - 8 comments