MetaTalk posts tagged with users

Search Through User's Activity?

MikeHarris — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:18:01 -0800

Would it be possible to have a search box on Activity subpages -- in other words, a search function that limits itself to a single user's comments or posts? I think this'd be a useful tool because, as one example, a lot of people may remember threads by virtue of author and comments -- "oh, this thread I half-remember, that was where Joe said 'flippy'" -- and being able to comment search would be useful to allow users to themselves coax partial memories out themselves without MeTa or admin assistance. I do see how it could be abused for stalkerish purposes, but we've not let that get in the way of implementing other existing conveniences such as per-user RSS post feeds, Google Earth KMZ links in profiles, and so on.

See Astro Space Laboratory

Artw — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:24:21 -0800

I'd just like to take a moment to misuse MetaTalk and draw your attention to this lame gawker list type post revealing the origin of MetaFilters own Astro Zombie.

Procession of user numbers

joeclark — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:44:50 -0800

For the upcoming meetups, or more exactly for press and blog coverage of upcoming meetups, could PB or Cortex or somebody gin up a kind of graph or visualization of brute quantities of user signups over time, along with user numbers? I’m assuming user numbers are often nonconsecutive (there may be a 23417 but not necessarily a 23418), but those numbers probably do not jump entire orders of magnitude (if there are 11000s there are probably also 12000s). Sometimes people leave or just forget about the site and their user numbers lie fallow. Everyone’s interested in the growth of MetaFilter contributors (the first half of my request), but I am also interested in the distribution of user numbers. This is almost exclusively because, by coincidence, mine is a nice round 250. (Sometimes I believe low numbers are important or significant in some way and sometimes I don’t. What amazes me about my own user number is just that it’s a multiple of 2, 5, and 10.) With those data visualizations, people covering MeFi 10th would have a way of understanding how many people have joined up over time. Then those of us who are unusually interested in numerical patterns would be able to study those too.

Crowded behind the green curtain.

carsonb — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:49:13 -0800

From a profile:
I inherited this account from my mom who died three years ago. I am, apparently, a sub-par contributor.
(My Dad uses it sometimes, too. He's the one with the more intelligent comments)
(Later. At this point, several, well, three or five, people are using this account but none will ever match the original account holder in terms of The Right Stuff)
I don't think there's a guideline for multiple people using one account, but maybe there should be? [Not a callout, hence no link.]

Pony Request: MyAskMefi to Track Anonymous Questions (or Track Users' Questions?)

WCityMike — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:21:55 -0800

Pony request: can following all anonymous posts (or maybe, more widely, following a specific user) be integrated into MyAskMefi? I find anonymous questions are usually interesting regardless of subject, so I keep an eye on that RSS feed. But, since MyAskMefi's purpose is to aggregate, I wonder if that could be expanded to follow anonymous posts. A "quick hack" to do this might be to autotag any anonymous post with "anonymous" -- then all you'd do is add 'anonymous' to your tags to follow. A larger-scale method might be to allow MyAskMefi to let you follow certain users. It'd not be a new ability, as people already have AskMefi post RSS feeds.

Don't do it Hermitosis

Who_Am_I — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:01:50 -0800

Metafilter is flirting with disaster. Just in case.

list members who frequently answer threads with a particular tag

nitsuj — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:27:47 -0800

AskMeFi pony request: list members who frequently answer threads with a particular tag Right now, there's a little module on a tag page that lists users who frequently use a particular tag when asking questions. This is helpful, but I think it would be even more helpful (perhaps in a different way) to list users who frequently answer questions with a particular tag. That way if you're asking a question about Ireland, for instance, you can see who frequently chimes in on similar threads and weight their response accordingly.

feed for personal activity

adamrice — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:53:31 -0800

I've been playing with a lifestream app, and it would be interesting to be able to pull my metafilter posting/commenting history into that. The most streamlined way for that to happen would be via RSS. It doesn't seem like there's any way to do that currently. Obviously this is a low priority, but if it's just a matter of flipping a switch, it could be interesting. Just to be clear, this would be different from the "recent activity" -- it would include only one's own comments and posts, rather than all new activity on threads one has participated in. It would be equivalent to feeds for http://www.metafilter.com/activity/[usernumber]/comments/ and http://www.metafilter.com/activity/[usernumber]/posts/

No one here but ghosts and odes to Dan Savage.

desjardins — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:48:50 -0800

Disabled accounts show up in "nearby users." I clicked on this profile and then had to click on this username (because, WTF? Was santorum taken?). Well, to make matters slightly weirder, a search for santorum brings up the username and the user's "real" name, though it's no longer visible in the profile.

methinks?

krautland — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:03:29 -0800

what's the story behind the user methinks? what's the story behind the user methinks? MeFi: 0 posts , 0 comments MetaTalk: 0 posts , 0 comments Ask MeFi: 0 questions , 0 answers Music: 0 posts , 0 comments, 0 playlists Projects: 0 posts, 0 comments Jobs: 0 posts is this username retired because of a reason? (someone I know wanted it a moment ago and we couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work when it's not in use.)

reasons for leaving

fake — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:38:51 -0800

Lately, I've noticed that quite a number of people whose presence I've enjoyed have disabled accounts. Are the majority of those people closing accounts leaving of their own accord?

Users are people too

infini — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:37:00 -0800

I'm tired of the word 'user'. can we use 'members' or 'readers' instead when referring to them e.g. "X users favourited this" etc? i know its just semantics, but users are people too and as a member of the design profession the choice of words worries me sometimes. besides who wants to be known as a 'user'? Yah, this is a pet peeve

Suddenly Nicky

netbros — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:56:30 -0800

Look who's back!

Whoa - security/cookie issues?

jkaczor — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:28:35 -0800

Whoa - security/cookie issues? Is it normal to be occasionally confused with another user? When I hit http://ask.metafilter.com - it tells me "welcome back" with another username... If I click on the "My Profile" - it takes me to that user... But thankfully I cannot edit anything and at that point it recognizes my normal login. Probably we are both using the same outgoing work proxy - but this seems rather weird.

How to find Mefites by city

lometogo — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:48:13 -0800

How to find Mefites in a specific location? I want to find all Mefites in Panama City, Panama. Is it possible to do this; if so, how? Someone suggested editing my profile and changing my location to the city I want to locate others in and then looking at nearby mefites but that didn't work.

Can't find it.

517 — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:24:03 -0800

I'm looking for a member's homepage that was a collection of weird and interesting facts. Can anyone point me in the right direction? It wasn't Neatorama and it wasn't Damn Interesting. It was a visually simple page with a white background and a fairly large collection of links. One of its posts was the first ever clear picture of a human, which turned out to be some guy getting his boots shined in Paris. I remember someone linking to it in a comment in the blue. I also remember it being a member's homepage that was linked through their profile. Now if only I could remember the name. Can anyone help?

Best Answer(er)

phunniemee — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:11:29 -0800

Is there a way to see how many of a person's AskMeFi comments are marked as best answer? I'm pretty new here, but I poked around and didn't find anything on this. If such a feature already exists, that would be fantastic. And if such a feature doesn't exist, could it be made? (And if the answer to that is no, then what are the pros and cons of having such a feature?) I think it would just be neat and fun little stat to know.

AskMe OP Fervor

kittyprecious — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:34:42 -0800

Which AskMe threads have been most dominated by the OP? After finding myself fascinated by this thread and Flunkie's passionate responses to every comer, I wondered if there were stats out there on AskMe threads where the OP is most heavily involved in the discussion--I guess like a matrix where one axis is thread length (number of total responses) and the other is number of OP responses (or alternately, word count instead of responses), and the "winner" being the one that's furthest out on both axes. I know this was getting at the first half, but it's the latter half that really intrigues me. Are there any examples offhand to be shared? If there's Greasemonkey for this...I wouldn't even know where to start.

Feeling crowded?

Cranberry — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:51:27 -0800

Growth The Metafilter membership on April 6, 2008 was stated on the blue as 71008. Today, one week later, it is stated as 71807. That is just about 100 noobs a day. How does mathowie have time for anything but processing applications?

MyAskme pony

brevator — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:57:54 -0800

Pony request: Ability to add questions from particular members to "My Askme." In particular I'd like to add anonymous questions. [if there's already a way to do this- my bad. i tried adding names to the tags, but no dice]

is there a way to search for every MeFiter who has posted to Music, but from a particular city?

bitterkitten — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:25:36 -0800

is there a way to search for every MeFiter who has posted to Music, but from a particular city? Seems like if the search terms are not in the post or tagged by the poster, the MeFi search engine doesn't include the user info... But maybe I'm just missing something. Thanks!

Searching for users by email address?

ewagoner — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:33:12 -0800

I tried to gift a membership to a minor internet celebrity, but I got the message "It appears your friend already has an account, as this email address is in use". Really? That's cool -- now who is it? Can there be a way of entering in an address and getting a username back, so I can add that account to my contacts?

User Activity Search

pb — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:50:38 -0800

User activity search is available on profile pages. In the upper-right corner of profile pages, MeFi members will see a new option to search that user's activity. Throw in a search term, click the button, and you'll find matching posts and comments with that term from that particular user. Happy searching! As with full site search and favorites search, this doesn't handle exact phrases very well. So if you're searching for an exact sentence rather than keywords, a Google search with the added phrase "posted by [username]" might still be your best bet.

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.

Wo bist du, Peter?

nasreddin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:32:06 -0800

What happened to koeselitz? Come back! I always appreciate your intelligent, thoughtful, learned comments. Or are you pulling a Zarathustra?