Of course I’d stop by!

Re. the filter, that used to be how things work — all Feed-based PostRank. But now with the addition of Thematic PostRank, at the folder level all the feeds in that folder are ranked compared to each other’s past performance. (As opposed to Feed-based PostRank where a feed is only ranked based on its own individual past performance.)

The ability to compare both apples to apples and apples to oranges, as it were, was a frequent request, which is why added that functionality.

@Brad Buset — Thanks for the feedback. We’re always looking to know how people use the functionality and what their ideal info management war chest would look like. Gives us a solid basis for future product planning.

It would be nice to apply the filtering only to certain folders. Alternatively, keep seperate accounts for ‘work’ and ‘play’ feeds – google accounts are fairly cost effective after all.

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Haha, I almost wrote something in the post to the effect of “I expect the AideRSS people will stop by to give their take on this,” and sure enough…!

I could have been clearer in my last point – it would be great if you could set a filter level for a specific feed within a folder and have that filter level still apply to the feed when you view the whole folder. I didn’t see that happen, but then again it’s very hard to tell when you’re flipping back and forth with lots of posts.

It’s interesting, a way to handle the issue of time being necessary to get accurate rankings would be to engage in predictive rankings based on a site’s content’s past performance. We’ve had both requests to implement such functionality and beseeching never to implement it, since currently rankings are based on hard data and with predictive rankings there is an element of “guesstimation”.

That “Best” category issue looks like a bug. I’ll get the guys to have a look at it tomorrow and will give you a holler if we have additional questions or need more info from you.

Regarding your last bullet point, I’m not clear on what you’re looking for. The Google Reader extension should “remember” filtering levels you’ve set per feed and retain them when you return to read them in Google Reader. Are you not seeing that behaviour? Or are you referring to something else?