All time biggest favorites?

November 17, 2007 1:54 PM

I really like the last 7 days highly favourited list - I get to see things I would have otherwise missed. Is there some way I can see the most favourited posts of all time (eg mushroom one. I've read the FAQ - It's a little difficult searching successfully on "favorite/s".) in both Metafilter and AskMe?
posted by b33j to Feature Requests at 1:54 PM (11 comments total)

Most Favorited MetaFilter Posts of All Time
posted by ALongDecember at 2:07 PM on November 17, 2007 [3 favorites]

Thanks!
posted by b33j at 2:12 PM on November 17, 2007

Now for AskMe, you could play the Clock Game with Google by searching for "users marked this as a favorite", but the "Most Important Book in Your Field" has 815 favorites which could be the winner.
posted by ALongDecember at 2:15 PM on November 17, 2007

"Is there any way to see the most favorited comments of all time? "

Woz. Gotta be.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:15 PM on November 17, 2007

Woz, that is.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:17 PM on November 17, 2007

No, Pastabagel's Mr Roger's beats it. 371 and counting. Just picked up another 50 this week because it was cited in the 'how to be a nice person' thread.
posted by PercussivePaul at 4:40 PM on November 17, 2007

It would be cool if there was RSS for the most favourited pages - at the moment the RSS feed for those pages is the home page.
posted by TheDonF at 3:11 AM on November 18, 2007

More statistical munging: Which thread has the largest sum of favorites for both post and comments? Which thread has the highest favorites average?
posted by ardgedee at 6:17 AM on November 18, 2007

I would love to see that "Most favorited posts of all time" page go deeper, like to the top 100 or even 200. Purely for surfing reasons and to be sure I haven't missed "the best of." Plus, it's a good page to send to people when you are telling them about Mefi.
posted by madamjujujive at 11:02 AM on November 18, 2007

I am very sorry that a link to the mushroom post was included. It made me remember when MeFi had images...I know, I can't go on living in the past...but it's hard to let go sometimes... :-(
posted by facetious at 7:08 PM on November 18, 2007

In case anyone revisits this, you can now view the most favorited posts on AskMe thanks to this MetaTalk request. Yay, I was right!
posted by ALongDecember at 11:16 AM on November 29, 2007