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Give some personality hints in interests search results

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Current interests search listings display only the person's name, journal name, and time since last update. I propose also including data like a bio snippet or some interests to get a better snapshot of who the person is.

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Valentine's Day Matchup

Short, concise description of the ideaSame thing high schools and colleges do to raise money for their classes. Livejournal members are matched up with 5 other people who have the closest interest lists. On Valentine's Day, those who want to participate can sign up. The person would put in their gender, then the gender ( Read more... )

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The 'by interest' screen

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the new look is so 'cutesie', but very distracting, please change back to a more functional appearance.

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Friends Search

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Search for Friends with the most in common with you.

Full description of the ideaLJ used to offer a search for people that had the most interests in common with you. This included extra points for having rare interests in common. I really miss this feature! It has been gone for a couple of ( Read more... )

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Interests shared by suspended users should be treated as unique

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If an interest is shared by suspended users only, it should not become a hyperlink on userinfo.bml -- it should be in plain text, as if it were unique.

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There is a section of interests on userinfo.bml page, and some ( Read more... )

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Amalgamation of "About You" and "Interests" in User Info.

Short, concise description of the ideaRather than creating an ordered list in the "Interests" section of your User Info and then rehashing that same information in the "About You" section, why not have it that people can click on specific words (specified interests) within their self- ( Read more... )

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Breaking out "areas of expertise" from "interests"

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In addition to the interests lists on the userinfo page, there could also be an "areas of expertise" list. This would of course be optional and work exactly like the interests list... but the seperation of the two I think is important.

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Separately-boxed 'Edit Interest' Page

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What if the edit interests option had each interest listed in a separate text box for easy editing?

Full description of the ideaI think it would be easier if there was a page only for personal interests, where each interest was a one-line, separate text box. This way ( Read more... )

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Do referer checking before adding interests

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Check the HTTP "Referer" header when adding an interest. This will prevent people from creating links which automatically add an interest to your profile.

Full description of the ideaCheck the HTTP Referer header when someone goes to a page to add an interest ( ( Read more... )

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making interest searching "smarter" (once it becomes available again)
Short, concise description of the idea
Essentially, I'd like the "interests" feature to be able to parse out redunancies, specifically words like "the". A spell checker would be cool, also, but not essential. The examples below better illustrate what I'm talking about.
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