Marking a question to check back on it

January 4, 2006 1:40 PM

Is there a way to flag a question in AskMe (not one of my own) so I can go back to it several hours later and read the comments that have accumulated? Am I missing some obvious functionality that does that? Currently, if I want to check back on a question, I have to remember what the question was and sift through (potentially) loads of other questions that have been asked since. Thanks!
posted by SheIsMighty to Feature Requests at 1:40 PM (20 comments total)

Favorites > Add to Favorites or Bookmarks > Add Bookmark or Bookmarks > Bookmark this page

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posted by cillit bang at 1:56 PM on January 4, 2006

This is actually one of the most oft-requested new features. Supposedly, our Dear Leader has an early version of a "My Favorites" page working, but has not yet made it live.
posted by killdevil at 1:57 PM on January 4, 2006

Don't you have a "temporary" folder in your bookmarks for this sort of stuff, not just MeFi, but whatever?
posted by caddis at 2:04 PM on January 4, 2006

Then there is always:

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Quite frowned upon as placemark.
posted by caddis at 2:06 PM on January 4, 2006

I've been successfully using the RSS feeds at Sequential.org (link)

I use the Bloglines bookmarklet and it works pretty well. When I'm in a thread I want to follow I click on the bookmarklet, asign it to my "-Mefi" folder in Bloglines, and new ocmments show up in bloglines. Occasionally it repeats the original post or gets comments out of order but at least it alerts to new comments. This is especially useful to catch new comments several days after the thread has mostly died.
posted by jacobsee at 2:09 PM on January 4, 2006

Another thing I do is to create a bookmarks folder on the Bookmarks toolbar in Firefox and just drag the icon in the address bar down to that folder if it's a thread I want to remember. Occasinoally I go through that folder and weed out the ones I'm no longer interested in.
posted by jacobsee at 2:10 PM on January 4, 2006

Quite frowned upon as placemark.

Fucking A. Please do not do this.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 3:06 PM on January 4, 2006

No, there isn't. And I wonder if the absence of this feature doesn't compel some folks to submit throwaway comments into threads, sometimes lowering the signal-to-noise ratio.
posted by cribcage at 3:07 PM on January 4, 2006

And I wonder if the absence of this feature doesn't compel some folks to submit throwaway comments into threads, sometimes lowering the signal-to-noise ratio.

Heh. As a theory, it's delicious, but I'm betting you it doesn't really happen. My theory is that 99% of those throwaway comments are made for their own sake; the other 1% are made by soon-to-be self-linker newbs.
posted by cortex at 3:17 PM on January 4, 2006

I concur.
posted by smackfu at 3:18 PM on January 4, 2006

delicious is a theory that works here though.
posted by bonehead at 3:39 PM on January 4, 2006

I'm adding a favorites system here, shooting for next week.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:31 PM on January 4, 2006

I hadn't even realized she was talking about thread she hadn't commented in or posted herself.
posted by delmoi at 5:01 PM on January 4, 2006

I would also very much like this, and had been thinking about posting this very question here.
posted by alms at 7:00 PM on January 4, 2006

Matt, being able to add a thread to "My Comments" without actually commenting in it would be the easy way. Perhaps you could then rename that to "My Threads" or something.
posted by caddis at 7:32 PM on January 4, 2006

caddis, it'll essentially be a My Comments page, just called My Favorites, and it'll include both posts and comments you wanted to keep around.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:41 PM on January 4, 2006

Just use a RSS reader -- a real one, not some hobbled web app. Leave the interesting posts marked as unread. Simple.
posted by Rhomboid at 11:33 PM on January 4, 2006

That sounds great Matt.
posted by caddis at 4:40 AM on January 5, 2006

my vote is for a seperate rss in each thread, which is essentially what i'm doing now through sequential's page.
posted by jacobsee at 7:05 AM on January 5, 2006

shooting for next week.

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by If I Had An Anus at 7:12 AM on January 5, 2006