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This might be good for other feed readers, but I'm mainly looking at it for Bloglines. When I discover a new feed, I ask myself whether it's worth my time or not. Most of the time, they aren't; but you won't know unless you give it a shot. The problem is that I read so many feeds, I don't always realize which ones are the good and which are the bad. Even worse are the aggregated feeds that come with both the good and bad. Heck, I've wanted a solution to the latter for years, now. Anyway, I have a potential solution: let me rate the feeds I'm watching. I don't care to share these ratings with the feed owners, tho. I merely want to be able to rate the feed's importance to me by noting how many good and bad feeds there were. Of course, since nothing's black and white, a 5-point scale would probably be best. This way, each reader can decide whether or not a feed's worth their ever-diminishing free time. For me, the point scale would be based on value and topic-orientation. I hate when people go off topic too much; so if someone had average content, but goes off topic a lot, I'd drop 'em. This would save me, in the long run, because I could ignore their feeds. Later, of course, I could re-evaluate them. Personally, I don't care about saving ratings after I drop a feed, but it could be useful. Simply having the ability to track a feed's quality is what I'd really like. On top of that, if I could rate individual authors within an aggregated feed  , I'd be even happier!
I like aggregated feeds because there are occasionally new people that have valuable content to provide. I hate aggregated feeds because you can't separate the good from the bad without losing the ability to see new authors. With this, I'd like to see the ability to ignore certain authors in aggregated feeds. This would also save the the annoyance of having to deal with posts in languages I don't know. Of all the requests I have for Bloglines, this is perhaps the one I'd like to see implemented the most.
I admit, I'm an organization freak. I have layers upon layers of directories to organize content on my computers that most would probably get a headache over. When I see people with 20+ files in a directory, I wonder how they can survive. Ok, maybe not that bad, but close. My blogroll is turning out to be just as bad. I have a lot of feeds I watch -- 148, to be exact, and a handful of these are aggregated feeds. Currently, Bloglines only allows you to add top-level directories. I want the ability to go deeper than that. Hell, even if it were only a second or third level, I'd be happy. My intentions aren't to test the limits, just organize my feeds.
When I consider my feeds, there are varying level of importance, which is how I group them. I have my main and casts groups for the main RSS and cast feeds that I skim thru briefly to pick and choose what I read; and then I have my "must read" and "spare time" groups that speak more to the level of importance the feeds are to me. Beyond that, I have two other groups of feeds which are even lower than the "spare time" group. Basically, I'd like to have more control over these groups without having 20 top-level groups. One nice feature is the ability to click on a group to read all posts in the feeds for the group. This is why I'd like the ability to group and read them hierarchically.
I sent an email to Bloglines a while back on this request, but they're not very good at letting people know what they think of their ideas, so I figured I'd post it here, too. Basically, I don't like the layout Bloglines uses for its feeds. The layout isn't horrible, but it could be better. I'd like to have the ability to use my own custom XSL file to render feeds. Furthermore, it'd be nice to be able to choose from a user-submitted, Bloglines-managed gallery of XSL files. Sure, having a gallery would be more of a pain, but I think Bloglines users would love the feature.
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