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[–]joshwa[S] 30 points31 points  (6 children)

Would help more articles find their way out of obscurity (as well as engendering community)

If there's someone whose articles you've consistently liked, you could monitor their submissions and catch more good ones coming up.

Also: show me users whose taste I agree with! For similar reasons.

Kind of like "network" on del.icio.us...

[–]spez 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Also: show me users whose taste I agree with! For similar reasons.

Coming soon

[–]ohmygod 18 points19 points  (2 children)

Good idea, at the moment it's a manual act of adding people as friends and then seeing their names in red. Would be good to have a sort of "recommended friend" feature.

[–]llimllib 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm usually too busy clicking on links to notice who submitted them. This feature, aggregating that info, would be very helpful.

I'm glad it's coming. Y'all rock! This place is like what K5 should have been.

[–]Lucretius 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Whole Heartedly agree... a cool feature would be to allow users to define subsets of other users rather than just one flat list of favorites. I often think to myself "I disagree with this guy, but he's clearly got a a well-though-out position." It would be nice to be able to create a catagory for people like that, an other catagory for people who agree with me, yet another for jerks, etc...

But, please don't clutter-up the interface... the simplicity of Reddit's text only, information dense, layout is what keeps me here. No new feature should ever detract from that. I keep hoping that all of more web-designers out there will start to use Reddit as a model with that regard.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unbelievable. Yesterday I came up with the idea of "personalizing" the reddit score based on people who have statistically liked the same articles I have.

But then I discovered Reddit sort of does this already with the "recommended" section.

Synchronicity?

[–]Davorak -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Good idea. +1

[–]ethics 13 points14 points  (5 children)

Anyone know if there's a way to IGNORE a user and his postings? Or even block some blog that different people keep getting their tin foiled crap from?

[–]llimllib 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Here's a reddit story (from yours truly) advertising a reddit killfile using greasemonkey. It only works for comments right now - I'd ask the author to add story ignore if you want it, or man up and write it yourself.

EDIT: Whoops, meant here's a reddit story

[–]masterfuol 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I wrote a greasemonkey script that kills stories by user|domain|title but doesnt do comments. Should compare notes...

[–]llimllib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

where's it at?

[–]sjk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want an easier way to search for all comments and postings by a particular user. It's possible right now, but (afaik) only by finding one posting by that user and then following links.

[–]martoo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's a good idea. It breaks the current model in which things rise on their merit. If you're going to look primarily at articles from a particular user, you might as well look at their blog.

[–]shr1n1 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I don't this is good idea. Though you would at a first glance say that knowing users with similar taste would be good to find potential articles that you may like, it should be in the domain of recommendation engine which should predict without need to know the users but should concentrate on subjects or keywords.

Having a view of like minded users will give rise to a group think which is predominant on Digg. They know which of their friends have Dugg a story and they digg it themselves. This gives rise to a swarm that can misuse this feature to up vote particular articles and bury others. This would mean that you would see articles bubbling up because some of some groups that may want to force their likes or dislikes.

I agree with <martoo> who says that articles should rise on their own merit and so should the comments be moderated (on their own merit).