Why a Favorite?

July 21, 2006 6:12 AM

My Little Favorite Pony - for marking posts and comments as favorites, how about allowing you to put in a little note as to why it piqued your interest.
posted by plinth to Bugs at 6:12 AM (14 comments total)

I thought it was because you loved me?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 8:21 AM on July 21, 2006

I'd like to be able favorite particularly good fave-explanations and provide an explanation as to why.
posted by cortex at 8:24 AM on July 21, 2006

could you explain that cortex?
posted by plinth at 8:25 AM on July 21, 2006

psst plinth....I think he's mocking you.
posted by chiababe at 8:31 AM on July 21, 2006

psst chiababe - I'm dishing it back.
posted by plinth at 8:33 AM on July 21, 2006

not really mocking so much as being playful, anyway
posted by cortex at 8:41 AM on July 21, 2006

also, flagged as "explaining the joke"
posted by cortex at 8:42 AM on July 21, 2006

I'd prefer tagging of favourites, myself. Or the fixing of that bug which makes it impossible who's favourited something if they are lone favouriteers.
posted by jack_mo at 8:56 AM on July 21, 2006

Oop - 'impossible to tell'.
posted by jack_mo at 8:56 AM on July 21, 2006

why are we all whispering? is the baby sleeping?
posted by blue_beetle at 9:44 AM on July 21, 2006

It's not impossible to tell who a lone favouriteer is, you just have to manually mangle the url.
Just use...
http://ask.metafilter.com/favorited/XXXXXX
where XXXXXX is the number of the favorited comment in question.

This example uses the ask.me link, I can only assume it works for the other pages as well.
posted by utsutsu at 10:04 AM on July 21, 2006

whisperwhisper whisperI AM THE BAD UNCLE WAKE THE BABY KICK OUT THE JAMS PUT THE CAT IN THE DISHWASHER AND CRANK THE IRON MAIDEN
posted by freebird at 10:05 AM on July 21, 2006

It's not impossible to tell who a lone favouriteer is, you just have to manually mangle the url.

Yeah, I know. I'm just very, very lazy.
posted by jack_mo at 10:33 AM on July 21, 2006

Actually, there's a bug I noticed earlier on today with favourites that could do with being fixed: when you click on a "X people have marked this as a favourite comment" link in a thread, the link to return to the post on the resulting page doesn't take you back to the post; it takes the last bit of the comment URL as the last piece of the thread URL (example; I clicked to see who marked this comment as a favourite and the Return to Post link pointed to http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/1375954, which probably won't exist for, ooh, 150-odd years.)

Metatalk doesn't seem afflicted by this but MeFi and Ask certainly are. I considered posting a thread on it, but frankly, I couldn't be arsed. And I know how to use the "go back" shortcut in Safari.
posted by Len at 12:58 PM on July 21, 2006