I would like to have the option of flagging posts "hilarious."

August 19, 2006 5:53 PM

Flag feature | In addition to "fantastic post" I would like to have the option of flagging posts "hilarious."
posted by maggieb to Feature Requests at 5:53 PM (33 comments total)

Look, why don't you spend some time on the site, get a feel for the community, before you start demanding 'features', ok?
posted by signal at 6:17 PM on August 19, 2006 [1 favorite]

I already know anyway, so let's skip it.
posted by yerfatma at 6:21 PM on August 19, 2006

Signal, that's a joke, right? She joined a day after you did. (7/19/2001 vs 7/20/2001).
posted by aberrant at 6:22 PM on August 19, 2006 [2 favorites]

why don't you spend some time on the site

I think it's amusing that signal joined September 19, 2001 and maggieb joined September 20, 2001.

I don't want a 'hilarious' flag (too much goddamned grabassery already), but I do want an 'insightful' flag, a 'heartbreaking' flag, an 'annoying' flag, a 'moderately interesting' flag, a 'regurgitation-inspiration' flag, a 'worse than monkey-semen' flag, and a 'not invented here' flag.

That's just for the blue. I'll get back to you with the rest of my list soon.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:23 PM on August 19, 2006

I want a pirate flag.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:34 PM on August 19, 2006 [2 favorites]

(too much goddamned grabassery already)

Please stop the assgrabbery.

*grabs stavros' ass*
posted by cortex at 6:34 PM on August 19, 2006

If something is hilarious, wouldn't that also make it fantastic?

Look, why don't you spend some time on the site, get a feel for the community, before you start demanding 'features', ok?

I'm sick and tired of all you newbies (users 10329 and up) walking around here like you own the place. All of your comments should be in a smaller font, so as not to distract people from what the real metafilter community is saying.
posted by Gary at 6:37 PM on August 19, 2006

That's what favorites are for.
posted by delmoi at 6:41 PM on August 19, 2006

If something is hilarious, wouldn't that also make it fantastic?

They could also be tragic.

I'd like a tragic flag.
posted by cillit bang at 7:00 PM on August 19, 2006 [1 favorite]

The "hilarious" tag would be helpful to me. It occurred to me after flagging a quonsar comment as fantastic. It wasn't fantastic but it was extra-funny.

'Fantastic' was the only positive flagging choice. If I were offended by a comment I get many options; e.g. 'double post,' derail, noise, etc. but if I like a post I only have one (or two, if you count 'other') flag to use in response.

I tend to separate pragmatic posts from whimsy.

I like both.
posted by maggieb at 7:06 PM on August 19, 2006

I want a perfectly cromulent flag.
posted by Tuwa at 7:11 PM on August 19, 2006

Consumate V's! I said Consumate V's!
posted by Balisong at 7:28 PM on August 19, 2006

I think instead of "hilarious," we need a flag for "sarcastic" so that other people will figure out what it is when they see it.
posted by crunchland at 7:35 PM on August 19, 2006

maggieb: Keep in mind that flags are exclusively for telling Matt about the contents of posts. If you think he would somehow be benefited by knowing which comments are hilarious, as opposed to fantastic, then make that case, but otherwise I don't think anybody is going to see any point to this suggestion.
posted by Bugbread at 7:35 PM on August 19, 2006

Flagging favorites vs. fantastic:

• I love the Favorites and Flag features.
• I know the Flag feature helps with moderation.
• I don't want to Favorite every post/comment I want to Flag.

I would like a little more balance in the Flag options because comments are censored here.
posted by maggieb at 7:42 PM on August 19, 2006

I'm sorry, I'm not quite understanding. What kinds of changes in behaviour by Matt do you think would result from adding the "hilarious" flag?
posted by Bugbread at 7:56 PM on August 19, 2006

I'd like a little Nepalese flag
posted by growabrain at 8:16 PM on August 19, 2006

Keep in mind that flags are exclusively for telling Matt about the contents of posts.

Is the "Fantastic Comments" page or whatever it was out of commission?
posted by cortex at 8:33 PM on August 19, 2006

cortex : "Is the 'Fantastic Comments' page or whatever it was out of commission?"

Ok, I could be wrong, I wasn't aware of a "Fantastic Comments" page. I thought flagging "Fantastic" just gave Matt an idea of potential material for the sidebar.
posted by Bugbread at 8:40 PM on August 19, 2006

I see now that I over-reacted. In my perfect flagworld the positive comment flags would be either insightful or amusing vs. fantastic or other. See?
posted by maggieb at 8:42 PM on August 19, 2006

I think flags should be binary encoded.
00110101 = Fantastic, Fascitious, Funny, Foreign, and Frumpy
posted by blue_beetle at 9:10 PM on August 19, 2006

Sometimes I flag things as fantastic because they are hilarious and then they get removed. I'm not sure this would help, though.
posted by needs more cowbell at 9:41 PM on August 19, 2006

The only purpose of the flagging system is to get the admins to look at something. Since both our admins have had their senses of humour beaten to death by blunt jokes, a "hilarious" flag would have no effect.
posted by timeistight at 10:39 PM on August 19, 2006

i want a . flag
posted by troybob at 12:28 AM on August 20, 2006

What's the purpose of the "." flag that only appears on comments in obituary threads?
posted by jonson at 12:35 AM on August 20, 2006

so i guess this makes maggieb a flag hag.
posted by Hat Maui at 2:49 AM on August 20, 2006

I heard there was grabassery available here. I would like a drink with a little flag in it.
posted by loquacious at 3:50 AM on August 20, 2006

The "hilarious" tag would be helpful to me.

But the flags aren't supposed to be helpful to you. They're supposed to be helpful to Matt. I don't see how this would be. (Frankly, I don't see how it would be "helpful"—as distinguished from "fun" or "satisfying"—to you either, but you're the best judge of that.)
posted by languagehat at 6:53 AM on August 20, 2006

matt needs help with hilarious, though!
posted by quonsar at 7:09 AM on August 20, 2006

Needs more cowflag.
posted by Balisong at 7:28 AM on August 20, 2006

A little late but as requested.
posted by adamvasco at 1:06 PM on August 20, 2006

Yar!
posted by cortex at 1:22 PM on August 20, 2006

Much confusion as to the purpose of flagging here. maggieb, I'm still interested in what way this would be useful. Marking favorites *is* useful. Flagging posts is hepling notfiying the admins.
posted by nthdegx at 2:29 PM on August 20, 2006