Pony or Kill Me? Email Comment Notification March 4, 2010 6:06 AM Subscribe
Pony? What about email (or MeMail) notifications when comments are entered in an AskMe thread?
Is it possible to get optional email (or MeMail if it would overburden the servers or environment) when a comment is entered on a thread that one creates? Or a thread that is just "out there"?
I am mostly thinking of threads that are not at the top of their list and that get comments some time after passing off the main pages... It is easier for the computer to notify you of activity than to require scanning a bunch of threads.
I tried searching but my MeTa/Googling skills fail.
MODS: If this question has been asked a multitude of times (and I suspect it has) then please feel free to delete any knowledge of same.
Or if the idea is just plain dumb and I am rambling, delete me.
Is it possible to get optional email (or MeMail if it would overburden the servers or environment) when a comment is entered on a thread that one creates? Or a thread that is just "out there"?
I am mostly thinking of threads that are not at the top of their list and that get comments some time after passing off the main pages... It is easier for the computer to notify you of activity than to require scanning a bunch of threads.
I tried searching but my MeTa/Googling skills fail.
MODS: If this question has been asked a multitude of times (and I suspect it has) then please feel free to delete any knowledge of same.
Or if the idea is just plain dumb and I am rambling, delete me.
well, this would be great for me since my askme questions tend to be greeted by crickets. but imagine if The Whelk asked for help. yea, even the mighty mail servers of the pentagon would stagger under the volume of redundant notifications.
even worse, imagine if The Whelk, astro_zombie and DU all needed hope on the same day.
no. just ask the mods to delete this request quickly and walk away whistling.
besides, you can just go to your all activity tab and then look at your ask posts. how many do you have?
posted by toodleydoodley at 6:13 AM on March 4, 2010
even worse, imagine if The Whelk, astro_zombie and DU all needed hope on the same day.
no. just ask the mods to delete this request quickly and walk away whistling.
besides, you can just go to your all activity tab and then look at your ask posts. how many do you have?
posted by toodleydoodley at 6:13 AM on March 4, 2010
meant to say your profile, then ask posts. you have 19, most recent one listed first.
posted by toodleydoodley at 6:14 AM on March 4, 2010
posted by toodleydoodley at 6:14 AM on March 4, 2010
You won't be deleted until your purpose here has been fulfilled, Agent Drasher.
posted by gman at 6:24 AM on March 4, 2010
posted by gman at 6:24 AM on March 4, 2010
There are already per thread RSS feeds for comments -- you could use an RSS to email service to subscribe to the comments on your threads via email.
posted by jacquilynne at 6:34 AM on March 4, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by jacquilynne at 6:34 AM on March 4, 2010 [2 favorites]
toodleydoodley: this would be great for me since my askme questions tend to be greeted by crickets.
I don't think that AskMe question/answers have much to do with poster popularity. It's more to do with the question itself. If there are a lot of possible answers (e.g. recommendations to eat in New York, what are good recent science fiction novels, complicated relationship AskMes) the threads will be long. Anything else tends to get fairly short threads, either because they're asking something very specific or something very hard.
posted by Kattullus at 6:37 AM on March 4, 2010
I don't think that AskMe question/answers have much to do with poster popularity. It's more to do with the question itself. If there are a lot of possible answers (e.g. recommendations to eat in New York, what are good recent science fiction novels, complicated relationship AskMes) the threads will be long. Anything else tends to get fairly short threads, either because they're asking something very specific or something very hard.
posted by Kattullus at 6:37 AM on March 4, 2010
What don't you like about Recent Activity?
I wish my posts/questions were shown with a different style than posts I've only commented in. I like that they are combined on one tab now, but they could use a little differentiation within the tab.
Also, there is no RSS feed for it.
posted by smackfu at 6:40 AM on March 4, 2010
I wish my posts/questions were shown with a different style than posts I've only commented in. I like that they are combined on one tab now, but they could use a little differentiation within the tab.
Also, there is no RSS feed for it.
posted by smackfu at 6:40 AM on March 4, 2010
There are already per thread RSS feeds for comments -- you could use an RSS to email service to subscribe to the comments on your threads via email.
[Golf clap]
posted by KokuRyu at 6:59 AM on March 4, 2010
[Golf clap]
posted by KokuRyu at 6:59 AM on March 4, 2010
I don't think that AskMe question/answers have much to do with poster popularity.
I've posted comments in askme 400+ times. I can honestly say I have never done so due to who the asker was. It's always been on whether or not I had an answer or thought I could help.
posted by cjorgensen at 7:00 AM on March 4, 2010
I've posted comments in askme 400+ times. I can honestly say I have never done so due to who the asker was. It's always been on whether or not I had an answer or thought I could help.
posted by cjorgensen at 7:00 AM on March 4, 2010
Pony or Kill Me?
Killing you seems like an overreaction. How about a light maiming?
posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:42 AM on March 4, 2010
Killing you seems like an overreaction. How about a light maiming?
posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:42 AM on March 4, 2010
I don't think that AskMe question/answers have much to do with poster popularity. It's more to do with the question itself.
I was mostly kidding. didn't you see the invisible hamburger?
posted by toodleydoodley at 7:47 AM on March 4, 2010
I was mostly kidding. didn't you see the invisible hamburger?
posted by toodleydoodley at 7:47 AM on March 4, 2010
Don't drag me into your pony party people.
You came in willing it seems.
posted by bigmusic at 8:21 AM on March 4, 2010
You came in willing it seems.
posted by bigmusic at 8:21 AM on March 4, 2010
Katullus, I can see how it might: If a person who asks the question has been added as a contact by a large number of people, then the post will show up in their sidebars, increasing the possibility that they will click over and respond. I've done it myself.
posted by zarq at 8:38 AM on March 4, 2010
posted by zarq at 8:38 AM on March 4, 2010
I've posted comments in askme 400+ times. I can honestly say I have never done so due to who the asker was.
I've sometimes avoided commenting in AskMe due to who the asker was, though. Not because we got into arguments on the blue or anything. Mainly because how they behaved in previous AskMes led me to believe that it was something I didn't want to get involved with.
posted by grouse at 8:50 AM on March 4, 2010
I've sometimes avoided commenting in AskMe due to who the asker was, though. Not because we got into arguments on the blue or anything. Mainly because how they behaved in previous AskMes led me to believe that it was something I didn't want to get involved with.
posted by grouse at 8:50 AM on March 4, 2010
Yeah, Recent Activity is our official system for notifying you about new comments in your posts. We're very hesitant to send out any more automated messages than we already do, so I don't think we'll be going that route. But I know there's a divide between people who like to receive information in their inbox/newsreader and people who like to get information on demand here at the site.
We haven't discussed an RSS feed for recent activity before, and I think a big part of that is simply performance. RA is the most processor-intensive page we serve, and having humans load the page is a different load than having automated newsreaders load the page every single hour or less without fail. But maybe that's something we can consider for people who want RA pushed to them.
In the meantime, subscribing to each thread you care about in a newsreader is probably the best offsite way to be notified of new responses.
posted by pb (staff) at 9:03 AM on March 4, 2010
We haven't discussed an RSS feed for recent activity before, and I think a big part of that is simply performance. RA is the most processor-intensive page we serve, and having humans load the page is a different load than having automated newsreaders load the page every single hour or less without fail. But maybe that's something we can consider for people who want RA pushed to them.
In the meantime, subscribing to each thread you care about in a newsreader is probably the best offsite way to be notified of new responses.
posted by pb (staff) at 9:03 AM on March 4, 2010
I don't think that AskMe question/answers have much to do with poster popularity.
Agreed. Unless the poster is asking a question about a local business or something else that would draw my attention to their username, I rarely look.
posted by quin at 9:13 AM on March 4, 2010
Agreed. Unless the poster is asking a question about a local business or something else that would draw my attention to their username, I rarely look.
posted by quin at 9:13 AM on March 4, 2010
Sure. No being dragged into pony parties for The Whelk. But just try keeping him out of a unicorn party.
posted by Babblesort at 10:07 AM on March 4, 2010
posted by Babblesort at 10:07 AM on March 4, 2010
We haven't discussed an RSS feed for recent activity before, and I think a big part of that is simply performance. RA is the most processor-intensive page we serve, and having humans load the page is a different load than having automated newsreaders load the page every single hour or less without fail. But maybe that's something we can consider for people who want RA pushed to them.
I would love an RSS feed for recent activity, and only avoided suggesting it because for some reason I thought it had been suggested before.
The RSS feeds I do use already are the three for MeFi, AskMe, and MeTa posts, and one for pretty much every thread I've been active in during the last month, though sometimes I forget to add these right away.
I also tend to hit the Recent Activity page awfully often due to said laziness in adding RSS feeds right away when I start participating in a new discussion. So in my case, having a feed reader hit it every 15 minutes, say, would be a whole lot less work for the server.
posted by FishBike at 10:17 AM on March 4, 2010
I would love an RSS feed for recent activity, and only avoided suggesting it because for some reason I thought it had been suggested before.
The RSS feeds I do use already are the three for MeFi, AskMe, and MeTa posts, and one for pretty much every thread I've been active in during the last month, though sometimes I forget to add these right away.
I also tend to hit the Recent Activity page awfully often due to said laziness in adding RSS feeds right away when I start participating in a new discussion. So in my case, having a feed reader hit it every 15 minutes, say, would be a whole lot less work for the server.
posted by FishBike at 10:17 AM on March 4, 2010
So in my case, having a feed reader hit it every 15 minutes, say, would be a whole lot less work for the server.
Heh, yeah, but I'm guessing you sleep at some point. I hear ya, but if it's timed right it's actually less of a load to hit it fairly frequently because there's some caching at work.
posted by pb (staff) at 10:23 AM on March 4, 2010
Heh, yeah, but I'm guessing you sleep at some point. I hear ya, but if it's timed right it's actually less of a load to hit it fairly frequently because there's some caching at work.
posted by pb (staff) at 10:23 AM on March 4, 2010
Unless I'm missing something, you can only ask four questions a month, so there are not that many threads to check.
posted by ersatz at 4:14 PM on March 4, 2010
posted by ersatz at 4:14 PM on March 4, 2010
zarq: Katullus, I can see how it might: If a person who asks the question has been added as a contact by a large number of people, then the post will show up in their sidebars, increasing the possibility that they will click over and respond. I've done it myself.
That's a good point. I've done that too. Though most of the questions I answer come through the MyAsk rss feed. But yeah... definitely, the activity sidebar does bring people in. That's actually one of the reasons why I make sure to add back everyone who adds me (besides it being polite) is so that their AskMes show up in the sidebar. The more people see it the likelier it is to get solved, and I wanna do my part.
posted by Kattullus at 5:11 PM on March 4, 2010
That's a good point. I've done that too. Though most of the questions I answer come through the MyAsk rss feed. But yeah... definitely, the activity sidebar does bring people in. That's actually one of the reasons why I make sure to add back everyone who adds me (besides it being polite) is so that their AskMes show up in the sidebar. The more people see it the likelier it is to get solved, and I wanna do my part.
posted by Kattullus at 5:11 PM on March 4, 2010
zarq wrote: "Katullus, I can see how it might: If a person who asks the question has been added as a contact by a large number of people, then the post will show up in their sidebars, increasing the possibility that they will click over and respond. I've done it myself"
What is this strangeness? Oh. I'd have to have contacts to know about it.
*skulks away in shame*
posted by wierdo at 6:17 PM on March 5, 2010 [1 favorite]
What is this strangeness? Oh. I'd have to have contacts to know about it.
*skulks away in shame*
posted by wierdo at 6:17 PM on March 5, 2010 [1 favorite]
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