Timeline for Questions with more favorites than upvotes?
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Feb 5, 2010 at 5:10 | vote | accept | Super Long Names are Hilarious | ||
| Feb 4, 2010 at 21:09 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | Favorite is useful for bookmarking stuff you want to 1) make sure stays closed or 2) delete as soon as possible... | |
| Feb 4, 2010 at 17:26 | comment | added | IAbstract | I think that the 'Favorites' is misunderstood. Since I have bookmarking tools with a right-click of my mouse button, I don't even use web page bookmarking. I vote change the name to 'Bookmark'...unless you are going to give us an additional feature on our personal stat page that shows the questions we've marked as favorites??? | |
| Feb 4, 2010 at 14:52 | comment | added | Arjan | I guess my English is failing me badly, as I'd not interpret the current tooltip "This is a favorite question" to be indicating a bookmark-like favourite... (Still, I agree about the usage as bookmarks though.) | |
| Feb 4, 2010 at 12:33 | comment | added | Ladybug Killer | @cha: Welcome to the real world :] | |
| Feb 4, 2010 at 12:03 | comment | added | Super Long Names are Hilarious | @joh - Man, that is confusing. The people who don't know about them want Favorites, and the people who do know about them use them as Bookmarks. | |
| Feb 4, 2010 at 11:52 | comment | added | Ladybug Killer | @cha: I have checked the questions about "favourite star". Now I have to disagree with you even more (Sorry about that ;). There are feature requests for adding this functionality (yes, they missed the star). These requests are talking about a favourite list. They didn't find the existing feature, but they want it and named it the same way it is already named. I have found one request which does not use "favourite" but it doesn't use "bookmark" either. | |
| Feb 4, 2010 at 11:47 | comment | added | alex | Why not call them starred questions instead of favorites or bookmarks? In Gmail they simply mean you want to get back to them. | |
| Feb 4, 2010 at 11:44 | comment | added | Super Long Names are Hilarious | @joh - It will lead to more questions, but also may stop causing questions about "what does the favorite star mean?" since it will have a self-explanatory name. It seems like a net gain, because questions about a change will only happen for a short amount of time, but questions about a misnamed feature will continue to come as new users arrive. | |
| Feb 4, 2010 at 11:41 | comment | added | Ladybug Killer | @cha: I do not like the name "favourite" for bookmarks. I think it was only invented to be different from Netscape. But nevertheless, it already exists and I do not see a compelling reason to change it. Users are used to it on SO. If it is changed, it only will lead to questions about that change here on Meta. | |
| Feb 4, 2010 at 11:32 | comment | added | alex | I do that sometimes. A question bugs me and I just want to see how it develops. I wouldn't want some popup asking me to vote, because I don't want to do that. | |
| Feb 4, 2010 at 11:31 | comment | added | Super Long Names are Hilarious | I will single-handedly shoehorn the word "cursorwriting" into the English language if it's the last thing I do. But on topic, "IE does it" doesn't seem like a good reason to misname a feature. Is there any compelling reason to call it "Favorite" if it doesn't really mean that? Jeff has largely been open to small cosmetic changes like that. I will accept your argument against the tooltip. | |
| Feb 4, 2010 at 11:27 | history | answered | Ladybug Killer | CC BY-SA 2.5 |