Request: more ways to display popular favorites.

August 14, 2006 12:14 AM

Low priority feature request: A "Favorites Hall of Fame", including things like Most favorited comments by week/month/year, Most favorited posts by week/month/year, all split between Mefi/MeTa/Axe, and even a list of users who have had the most personal contributions marked as favorites by others.
posted by lilbrudder to Feature Requests at 12:14 AM (25 comments total)

I've asked for this kind of thing here, here, here (and a few other times I couldn't find (before the current implementation of the faves system, so it was referring to 'fantastic' flags instead -- the principle's the same, though, and a lot more can be done with faves in place)).

Finding those comments would've been a lot faster if we had a way to restrict a search to our own comments only (my own personal feature hope, which I've also begged for in the past).

No idea if either of those things are on mathowie's to-do list, though.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 12:43 AM on August 14, 2006

Yeah, that would be cool.
posted by sveskemus at 12:51 AM on August 14, 2006

Your favorite comment sucks.
posted by found missing at 7:08 AM on August 14, 2006 [1 favorite]

lilbrudder, it's not really kosher to use a sock puppet to post twice to MeTa in the same four day period. I know you're just enthusiastic and all, but if it's low priority it can wait two days.

That said, I'd love more manipulatable favorites.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:35 AM on August 14, 2006

Most favorited comments by week/month/year, Most favorited posts by week/month/year, all split between Mefi/MeTa/Axe

That would be absolutely great. May I also add "most favourited ever".

a list of users who have had the most personal contributions marked as favorites by others.

This I may have qualms with. It's not a pageant. Just be awesome.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 7:45 AM on August 14, 2006

It's not a pageant

*cancels swimsuit and evening gown order*
posted by jonmc at 7:54 AM on August 14, 2006

understood, won't happen again.
posted by jonson at 8:51 AM on August 14, 2006

This I may have qualms with. It's not a pageant. Just be awesome.

Yeah, you're probably right. I only added that 'cause I'm pretty sure it's me. I am awesome, though, you're right about that part too.
posted by jonson at 8:53 AM on August 14, 2006

It's not a pageant - it's a cabaret. Or maybe a cabernet. I always get those two confused. Which is the one where you wake up with a crushing headache days later wearing somebody else's clothes in a McDonalds Playland?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:02 AM on August 14, 2006

No problem, IRFH, I have that all the time as well. Some things I commonly get mixed up:

wreak/reek
celibate/celebrate
abstruse/obtuse
marital/martial
favourite/foveate
blog/bog
Matt's website/the perfect place for me to shine and be loved, Loved I say!
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 9:48 AM on August 14, 2006

jonson, take off the smoking jacket and put down the port. They are not yours.
posted by yhbc at 9:53 AM on August 14, 2006 [2 favorites]

marital/martial

Wait-- there's a difference?
posted by dersins at 10:07 AM on August 14, 2006

jonson, take off the smoking jacket and put down the port. They are not yours.

Even a passing allusion to O português improves the tone around here.

*sips port, looks around benignly*
posted by languagehat at 12:37 PM on August 14, 2006

We need a monthly event where a small group of us have some port and cigars, and discuss world affairs.
posted by blacklite at 3:23 PM on August 14, 2006

tongue/tounge. I hate that.
posted by Plutor at 3:56 PM on August 14, 2006

We need a monthly event where a small group of us have some port and cigars, and discuss world affairs.

Me and a few NYC mefites have a similar thing, but we substitute beer, Camel Lights and boobies.
posted by jonmc at 5:01 PM on August 14, 2006

And that's why no one ever mistakes you for a man of class, jon.
posted by crunchland at 7:31 PM on August 14, 2006

Foolish, foolish crunchie. Who needs class when you're THIS awesome?!?!?!
posted by jonson at 7:35 PM on August 14, 2006

Ah. After a brief email exchange, I am forced to admit that your message above was intended for jonmc, and that I very well may be retarded.
posted by jonson at 9:47 PM on August 14, 2006

That's ok, jonson. Far be it from me to dissuade you of the illusion that the world actually does revolve around you.
posted by crunchland at 10:14 PM on August 14, 2006

This is why we need that favorites index, so that when crunchland makes me feel bad I can compare our relative "favoriteness" and sleep easier.
posted by jonson at 10:49 PM on August 14, 2006

If I had been talking about you, I'd have left the cl- off the word class.
posted by crunchland at 4:59 AM on August 15, 2006

I know you're just enthusiastic and all

O Jessamyn - the cruel familiarity of these words!

*pulls up tights, holds fist to forehead, waves gingerly to all with fluttering fingers, in a most unhamlet-like way*
posted by MiguelCardoso at 5:42 AM on August 15, 2006

Huh? Miguel has been in here for over an hour and nobody has made an involuntary exclamation of joy yet? The east coast should be well up and caffeinated by now, no? Here in Europe it's almost time for port.

Well, allow a lowly noob from after the (First) Migs Era to do the honours, then.



MIGS!
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 6:54 AM on August 15, 2006

Migs wears tights?

He wears the required uniform.

Yeah, tights.

Shut up!
posted by mr_crash_davis at 7:15 AM on August 15, 2006