What is going on with favorites in November?
We are doing a bit of an experiment for November and only November to try to get some information on how people use favorites. There is an Epic Thread in MetaTalk about it but here are the salient points… 1. We’re removing the number-of-favorites indicator from comment bylines. There is a preference where you can put this back in your profile. Note this preference is cookie-based so needs to be set on each computer you read MetaFilter from. 2. We’re replacing the word “favorites” with “has favorites” for those comments that have one or more favorites attached to them. We briefly used the word “faved” That was hated so much we’ve changed it. 3. We’re including the favorite count invisibly in the byline still, so that those who specifically want to use that information or to write/modify scripts affected by it can do so. We’d appreciate, however, if you’d use the preferences option so we can keep a little bt of track of this. 4. All other aspects of the system will remain as is, so var
