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I spend a lot of time looking at the profile pages of top contributors, just to educate myself. I feel it would have been awesome to have the ability to see top saved questions and answers of a particular contributor. To be clear, I want to see the top posts of the contributor saved by other users.

To illustrate this further, this is how we see top questions and answers of a contributor:

Questions (we have Score, Activity, Newest, and Viewed tabs):

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Answers (we have Score, Activity, and Newest tabs):

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In both of these screens, what if we had a "Saved" tab to show what questions and answers of this contributor are the top favorites of users who have been saving the posts? In this view, it would be appropriate see the Saved counts as well.

Top saved answers would be more interesting compared to top saved questions.

Would this be of broad interest?

Badges based on Saved:

https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/11220/favorite-answer https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/11221/stellar-answer https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/33/favorite-question https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/36/stellar-question

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    Related (kind of a duplicate, but not really the same): Allow setting public visibility settings on saves lists, such as "public" and "unlisted" .
    – Spevacus Mod
    Commented Aug 23 at 17:59
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    Saves was made private by design. It replaced the 'favorite' feature which was stored as a votetype in the stacl exchange data explorer and data-dump.
    – rene Mod
    Commented Aug 23 at 18:01
  • If it is private by design, why do we have badges based on number of saves a post gets?
    – codeforester
    Commented Aug 23 at 18:03
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    Because someone saving your post indicates that you've written something they want to refer back to at some point in the future, which is an indication of decent quality and usefulness. You do not need to know who saved your post for the badge to mean something.
    – Spevacus Mod
    Commented Aug 23 at 18:05
  • I don't want to know who all saved a post, I just want to know the top saved posts of a contributor which can be useful.
    – codeforester
    Commented Aug 23 at 18:06
  • There are also badges for voting but votes aren’t made public just because there’s a badge for it. I can think of several scenarios where I might not necessarily want certain saves public, especially on sites like {religion}, law, workplace, etc.
    – user1502910
    Commented Aug 23 at 18:41
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    Oooohhhh... You want to know the posts authored by the user which have been saved the most times by other people. As this is written, I and it appears at least some of the other commenters, interpreted this request as "I want to see the top questions and answers which that user saved." Please edit to clarify which of those you are really wanting.
    – Makyen
    Commented Aug 23 at 19:16
  • Yes, it does look like people misunderstood my intent. I have no interest in seeing what a given user is saving - there is almost no value in it and also it is being considered private.
    – codeforester
    Commented Aug 23 at 20:56
  • Somewhat related: What does replacing bookmarks with Saves mean for SEDE?
    – Martin
    Commented Aug 25 at 6:52

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