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August 24, 2006 1:59 PM

Ponyfilter: would it be possible to allow us to view only the "favorited" comments in a long thread? Ditto viewing only the answers marked "best" in AskMe threads?

(Well, yes, of course it'd be possible. What I'm really asking is whether there's any chance of it happening.)
posted by scrump to Feature Requests at 1:59 PM (13 comments total)

As long as it is an optional feature, I'm all for it.
posted by wheelieman at 2:02 PM on August 24, 2006

yes, there is a chance of it happening. Unfortunately, these small margins provide inadequa-
posted by boo_radley at 2:13 PM on August 24, 2006

There are other more useful possible features that should, if there is any justice in the world, take priority over that. For instance, displaying all the comments sorted in alphabetical order, and displaying only comments containing an odd number of words.
posted by sfenders at 2:27 PM on August 24, 2006

Hey, we could generalize this... let's let each comment have a score from -1 to 5 based upon ratings (or <fingerquotes>moderations</fingerquotes>) by users. Then you could select a threshold that would be applied to the comment view, so that you could filter out all the crap.
posted by Rhomboid at 2:36 PM on August 24, 2006

ZOMG RHOMBOID THAT'D BE GREAT JUST LIKE SLASHD hey waitaminute.
posted by scrump at 2:40 PM on August 24, 2006 [1 favorite]

It seems like the sort of thing a greasemonkey script could do pretty easily, no?
posted by jacquilynne at 2:53 PM on August 24, 2006 [1 favorite]

I'd prefer to see the unfavorited ones. They need more love.
posted by Eideteker at 2:56 PM on August 24, 2006

What we need is to allow folks to script custom UI's via an API. Expose the entire database (on a dynamically metered timeshare basis) via hooks and let people process the raw data according to whatever whim they choose.

That, and a jobs site.
posted by cortex at 3:11 PM on August 24, 2006

can we add a "scorned" feature, perhaps accessed by clicking a small minus sign? I mean, at least once a day, I think "this place needs more scorn".
posted by owhydididoit at 4:22 PM on August 24, 2006 [2 favorites]

you know what I think would be awesome? Linking the title of the "Favorited" thread to go to the thread in addition to the date.

i'm still not sure why it isn't like that already.
posted by fishfucker at 5:00 PM on August 24, 2006

mod scrump up
posted by bonaldi at 6:06 PM on August 24, 2006

It seems like the sort of thing a greasemonkey script could do pretty easily, no?

You're making the unwarranted assumption that I can differentiate between my rear end and a hole in the ground when it comes to this tubular interweb "code" "hacking" stuff.

Although I have GreaseMonkey, my Stupid is vast.

This "greased monkey", it vibrates?
posted by scrump at 6:10 PM on August 24, 2006

Alternatively, you could read the threads (and comments) that interest you and decide for yourself.

Naaaahhh!
posted by yhbc at 7:30 PM on August 24, 2006