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February 15, 2006 11:17 AM

Hey! Per user RSS feeds! Keen!
posted by boo_radley to MetaFilter-Related at 11:17 AM (39 comments total)

Just so!
posted by cortex at 11:18 AM on February 15, 2006

Peachy.
posted by jack_mo at 11:21 AM on February 15, 2006

Neat!
posted by If I Had An Anus at 11:26 AM on February 15, 2006

Did you miss the thread (still on the front page of MetaTalk) where this is currently being discussed?
posted by jonson at 11:33 AM on February 15, 2006

Wow. That explains why I felt like I was being followed all morning.


But neat! Thanks, Matt.
posted by mds35 at 11:40 AM on February 15, 2006

yes :(
posted by boo_radley at 11:42 AM on February 15, 2006

Yuck. So now it is even easier for certain people to follow me around and issue an insult or snark after every vaguely political post I make.
posted by dios at 12:45 PM on February 15, 2006

It's not keen now. It's swell, at best. It'll be keen when I can get an "all your contacts' posts" RSS feed. It'll be keener when I can get a single "all contacts' posts on all subsites" feed. It'll be keenest when I can get the same for comments.

Yeah, I'm needy.
posted by Plutor at 12:46 PM on February 15, 2006

But I did sign up for tog's feed because she is dreamy.
posted by dios at 12:46 PM on February 15, 2006

Stick to art and flash game sites, dios.
posted by crunchland at 12:47 PM on February 15, 2006

OMG I used the awesome-o user-based RSS feed to follow dios and I see he is snarking in here! I SNARK YOUR FACE, DIOS!!! snarksnarksnark.

Sorry. Someone had to. This feature comes just in time for these troll fanboys, eh?

And by "troll fanboys" I mean "fanboys of a troll", not that all 96 posts in that thread are from trolls.
posted by twiggy at 12:48 PM on February 15, 2006

Self-policing gets a brand new weapon in the war on intellectual dishonesty, hurrah!

And the loyalists will not have to wander around so much looking for their liege.

twiggy, nicely done. You got me grinning!
posted by fenriq at 12:50 PM on February 15, 2006

I have been waiting for this!
posted by ParisParamus at 12:54 PM on February 15, 2006

Plutor knows keen.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 12:55 PM on February 15, 2006

He's back!
posted by erebora at 1:04 PM on February 15, 2006

Poor Dios. A perfectly good cross, but he's still looking for someone to give him a leg up onto it.
posted by klangklangston at 1:06 PM on February 15, 2006

Why is everyone mad about the cups?
posted by Plutor at 1:12 PM on February 15, 2006

This is going to get me shot (or maybe not, liberals don't like guns) but I'm going to suscribe to Dios and PP's feeds, because they are interesting people.

So there.
posted by Loto at 1:27 PM on February 15, 2006

Some folks can even turn a metatalk thread about new features into a thread about themselves.
posted by sonofsamiam at 1:39 PM on February 15, 2006

doesn't anyone read the sidebar? this is there too.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:47 PM on February 15, 2006

The feeds are for posts, not comments at the moment, so if you subscribe to people you don't like, chances are, you probably won't see many front page posts from them (people seem to earn their glory in comments)
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:50 PM on February 15, 2006

Your favorite mefite sucks.
posted by bardic at 1:55 PM on February 15, 2006

I'm honestly surprised neither of you have deleted this. The fact that it got to 21 comments shocks and saddens me.

jessamyn: I usually enjoy mefi through RSS feeds, so no. Clearly we need a sidebar rss feed to correct this.
posted by boo_radley at 1:57 PM on February 15, 2006

The feeds are for posts, not comments at the moment,

Phew. What would be the point of tracking comments, other than in order to pop up and call them a tosser every time they spoke (or, rather less likely, to call them a sweetheart every time the spoke)?
posted by jack_mo at 1:59 PM on February 15, 2006

The feeds are for posts, not comments at the moment

Good to hear. And I hope it stays just posts.

On preview: what jack_mo said.
posted by dios at 2:01 PM on February 15, 2006

You're such a sweetheart , jack.
posted by sgt.serenity at 2:24 PM on February 15, 2006

Sarge, you're an absolute sweetheart.
posted by arcticwoman at 2:26 PM on February 15, 2006

Still hopped up on Valentine's Day, sarge?
posted by jack_mo at 2:30 PM on February 15, 2006

You mean I still need to put up a blog? ;- (
posted by ParisParamus at 2:45 PM on February 15, 2006

Phew. What would be the point of tracking comments

Cyberstalking, DUH.

Actually, some people on MeFi tend to be very level headed and insightful often enough that I might be interested in seeing their comments on things. I probably wouldn't use it super often, but it would be kind of nifty.
posted by twiggy at 3:01 PM on February 15, 2006

What would be the point of tracking comments, other than in order to pop up and call them a tosser every time they spoke (or, rather less likely, to call them a sweetheart every time the spoke)?

This is a pretty dumb counter-argument. Such behavior would result in bannination whether the stalker used the RSS feeds or, you know, the existing user pages that already list every comment.

I'd like to see per-user comment RSS feeds since some people regularly make insightful comments.
posted by nixerman at 3:05 PM on February 15, 2006

I usually enjoy mefi through RSS feeds, so no. Clearly we need a sidebar rss feed to correct this.

http://www.metafilter.com/sideblog/atom.xml
posted by gleuschk at 3:15 PM on February 15, 2006

I'd like to see per-user comments feeds so I can include it on my SuperGlu page. If people are that concerned about "stalking", maybe they can have the option to turn their (hopefully coming soon) per-user comment feeds off.
posted by Jimbob at 3:56 PM on February 15, 2006

(Opps. That was supposed to be SuprGlu. Fucking Web2.0 naming conventions.)
posted by Jimbob at 3:57 PM on February 15, 2006

Phew. What would be the point of tracking comments, other than in order to pop up and call them a tosser every time they spoke (or, rather less likely, to call them a sweetheart every time the spoke)?

I want my own comments. I couldn't care less about the rest of yours.
posted by timeistight at 4:37 PM on February 15, 2006

Don't think nobody saw you trying to push your cups agenda, Plutor. That will catch on over my rotting corpsified ashes.
posted by nomad at 5:45 PM on February 15, 2006

Nice. Well done, Matt.
posted by sjvilla79 at 8:14 PM on February 15, 2006

I want my own comments. I couldn't care less about the rest of yours.

Ah, hadn't thought of that. Would indeed be handy for SuprGluing and such.
posted by jack_mo at 6:05 AM on February 16, 2006

How do ashes rot?
posted by boo_radley at 7:51 AM on February 16, 2006