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Ever noticed that you can favorite yourself?

Check your own profile page, there is a favorite star available

Why should one want to favorite himself?
Q2A version: 1.6beta
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:P I never noticed however there should be simple hack by writing conditionally if is the logged in user. I guess.
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I checked the database. A lot of my users have favorited themselves! wow :) ... I guess they were interested in clicking the star... or they do not understand the use of it.
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I also care about this. Although it thought that there were not many people who follow themselves intentionally, it is problem supposing there are many those who click with interest.
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see my answer below for the fix.

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The fix, again core hack:

1. open qa-page-user-profile.php

2. find lines: 

      $qa_content['favorite']=qa_favorite_form(QA_ENTITY_USER, $useraccount['userid'], $favorite,
                qa_lang_sub($favorite ? 'main/remove_x_favorites' : 'users/add_user_x_favorites', $handle));

3. encapsulate, so that it becomes:

        if($userid != qa_get_logged_in_userid()) {
            $qa_content['favorite']=qa_favorite_form(QA_ENTITY_USER, $useraccount['userid'], $favorite,
                qa_lang_sub($favorite ? 'main/remove_x_favorites' : 'users/add_user_x_favorites', $handle));
        }
 

Should be implemented in core...

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and instead the "favorite star" I am putting the "edit my profile" button, as described here: http://question2answer.org/qa/26022/request-for-next-version-merge-user-navigation-on-top
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Good.. I think you should start to dig into core now... :)
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I hope Scott will get the rights from gidgreen to do core changes, so that he can consider it :) or gidgreen finds the minute to do it by himself. Anyway, I am curious what the result of their exchange will be...
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there is a good reason for that, if I favorite myself in My Updates page, I will be able to get update of all contents that I posted as well as posts, tags and categories which I favorited.

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