RE: counts on Posting History

> 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