Sorting Popular Favorites

June 19, 2006 7:37 PM

Could the popular favourited posts and comments be listed in chronological order instead of by number of "votes"? As is, it's difficult to single out what's new and fresh -- which would make the whole page much more useful (not that I don't love revisiting the Sketchzilla thread).
posted by Robot Johnny to Feature Requests at 7:37 PM (14 comments total)

Seconded.
posted by drpynchon at 8:30 PM on June 19, 2006

Why would a list of most popular be sorted by date?

I suppose I could do most popular per day, but a popularity list is typically sorted by most popular first.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:45 PM on June 19, 2006

Because it's very useful to know what's popular lately in order to filter the filter. Otherwise I might miss all sorts of great things. Therein is the value of doing most popular per day in addition perhaps to most popular overall.
posted by drpynchon at 9:07 PM on June 19, 2006

I thought this wasn't supposed to be a popularity contest. Maybe I'm just too worried about losing.
posted by Chuckles at 9:12 PM on June 19, 2006

Why would a list of most popular be sorted by date?

Well, the page title is "Recent Favourites"... but looking at the page, at a glace, there is no way to know which ones are, in fact, most recent.
posted by Robot Johnny at 9:24 PM on June 19, 2006

it's been my impression that this favorites page stays the same for days at a time and nothing changes
posted by pyramid termite at 9:38 PM on June 19, 2006

Maybe a button that changes a sort order?
posted by delmoi at 10:06 PM on June 19, 2006

Having the page be all-time favorites seems like it might create a self perpetuating samey list of favorites, if people who click that list add those things to their favorites lists... it's like favoritism in favor of the favorites!

If I were looking for something I felt was useful related to favorites, it would be favorite posts made in the last 2 (or 4, or whatever ends up appropriate) weeks... and from that page, there would be a link to all time favorites if I really felt like seeing that too...
posted by twiggy at 10:46 PM on June 19, 2006

The "recent" part of the page is that the votes are recent, but yes, if someone votes for the 72nd time today, an old link that got 71 favorites last week will resurface. I suppose I should change it so that the favorites window is only looking back 24 hours, so ignoring say, the 71 favorites last week and counting an old popular link as a 1 today.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:50 PM on June 19, 2006

Why would a list of most popular be sorted by date?

I suppose I could do most popular per day, but a popularity list is typically sorted by most popular first.

When we discussed this same thing in the context of 'fantastic' flags, I suggested user-selectable time frames in a dropdown : popular today, popular this week/month, all-time popular.

I re-suggest this, aware that it would probably be expensive in database terms.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:12 PM on June 19, 2006

How about matt just provides us with a query editor so we can do whatever we want (read only, of course)
posted by delmoi at 1:14 AM on June 20, 2006

Also: RSS feeds of contacts' favorites? (two of them, one for posts, one for comments) Please?
posted by dmd at 5:32 AM on June 20, 2006

I think the way to do it is to time-stamp the favorite votes and give them about a 2 week expiration (not 24 hours, that's too fast).
posted by empath at 6:54 AM on June 20, 2006

Helloooooooooooooo favorites bubble!
posted by blue_beetle at 8:42 AM on June 20, 2006