Favorites are an internal bookmark system for MetaFilter -- a way to save a good thread or comment to a central place that you can come back to later to catch up or read again. To save a post to your favorites, you simply hit the [+] link. It should show up on your favorites page, which is linked in the header menu and on your own user page. You can remove your favorites from the Favorites page. Your favorites are public, so other readers will know what'd you've saved for later. If you want to keep things private, use your browser's bookmark functionality instead. If a comment has been chosen as a favorite, it will have a number in brackets next to the [+] link indicating how many people chose it as a favorite. You can mark your own comments as favorites.
(tags: MetaFilter favorites features ) May 10, 2006 - permalink - back to questions

The Popular Favorites pages on MetaFilter and Ask MetaFilter show posts and questions that have received the most favorites from members within a specific time period: the last 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, or all time.

While browsing the Popular Favorites page you can see both the total number of favorites and the number of favorites added within the current set time period. Favorite counts are shown as a text link that says something like [24 favorites (12 in the last 24 hours)]. That means the post has received 12 favorites in the specified time period and 24 favorites total. If a post only has [x favorites] listed, that means all favorites were added within the specified time period. Click the link to see the list of all members who added the post as a favorite and when they added it.
(tags: favorites ) December 13, 2008 - permalink - back to questions

JavaScript is required to add favorites. So make sure you have JavaScript enabled in your browser, and make sure that any browser extension that can block JavaScript such as NoScript or AdBlock Pro is currently not blocking JavaScript from MetaFilter domains. Because MetaFilter relies on the Google AJAX Library API to host code related to favorites, you'll also need to make sure that googleapis.com is allowed in any script-blocking extensions.
(tags: favorites javascript ) February 17, 2009 - permalink - back to questions

There is an upper limit of 100 favorites per day (that you can add, you can receive as many favorites as people decide to give you) to keep people from abusing the favorites system.
(tags: favorites ) February 18, 2009 - permalink - back to questions

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 various less-visible parts of the site that deal with favorites should be unaffected.
(tags: favorites ) November 3, 2009 - permalink - back to questions