Definitely an interesting idea. In general we need to do more around showing "reputation" around things, this included.
Joshua -----Original Message----- From: ydn-delicious@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Weymar Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:10 PM To: ydn-delicious@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [ydn-delicious] counts on Posting History Excellent suggestion, Paul. Seconded! On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Paul Denning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I occasionally follow the links to the "first posted by" user in > Posting History. In theory, for bookmarks saved by 100s of people in > del.icio.us over a time span of many months, it is a good bet that the > first person to bookmark it in del.icio.us is an early adopter, a > subject matter expert, or simply more in tune with the target web > site. Sometimes the 2nd or 3rd or other early posters, not just the > 1st, are also more tuned in to that link or tag than, say, the 900th > person to bookmark it 15 months later. > > However, I am often disappointed when I click around on some of the > early posters that have few or no other links (with the same tag). > > I'll just grab a fairly popular old bookmark as an example. > > [1] http://del.icio.us/url/1d858cd47a4fdc3508ab837958307464 > > At the time of this writing, that link was posted 223 times on > del.icio.us . > > It looks like the most popular tag is "screencast". > > It was first posted by > http://del.icio.us/mwagner > (but tagged it "screencasting", not "screencast"). > > http://del.icio.us/mwagner/screencasting > shows 8 links; not bad. > > If that user had only 1 bookmark tagged "screencasting", I would > assume that the person is not as tuned into "screencasting" as someone > who has many more bookmarks tagged with "screencasting". > > Since the tag "screencast" is more popular, I can look at the first > person to use that tag... > http://del.icio.us/erehwon/screencast > > But that user has only 4 items tagged "screencast". > > If I look at some of the other early posters that used the tag > "screencast", I find http://del.icio.us/mhinze/screencast (29) > http://del.icio.us/mmazza/screencast (4) > http://del.icio.us/arip/screencast (4) > http://del.icio.us/clintcombs/screencast (10) > > It would be nice, when looking at posting history, to show a count of > how many bookmarks each person has for a given tag. > In the list above, I had to visit each page to get the count of items. > If the posting history for [1] already had the counts calculated for > me, it would provide me with a better hint about what other users are > worth looking at. > > For example, instead of > by <http://del.icio.us/mhinze>mhinze to > <http://del.icio.us/mhinze/screencast>screencast > > It would be nice if the posting history showed by > <http://del.icio.us/mhinze>mhinze to > <http://del.icio.us/mhinze/screencast>screencast (29) > > Has that been considered? > Any greasemonkey scripts or other ways to get that information quickly? > > Paul > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
