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Like button for forum?
Aimless:
I like this. I think many people will enjoy knowing that someone liked something they posted and it will lower the threshold for expressing appreciation. Both getting and showing appreciation are things that make many people feel a tiny little bit better, which I feel is a good thing.
Some of the other forums I frequent have similar features and I haven't seen any problems with them on those forums along the lines of Vgrrl's dystopian scenario. On the contrary, I've seen positive things, esp. on those forums where it's been implemented as a "thanks" button. I've made peace with my childhood experiences and so there is currently nothing that tarnishes this idea for me atm. I also like the appearance of the button as well as the animation. So, all in all, I give this a thumbs up and if we get a thumbs up emoticon I'd give two thumbs up. cheers
hedgie:
--- Quote from: MooskiNet on 05 Feb 2015, 17:52 ---I'd argue a forum becoming an insular campground for the 'old guard' is just as likely with or without 'likes,' though I agree there's a tendency to cliquishness when who's liking who is obvious.
Like any other online community, the key's moderation. That's covered well, in my opinion, and if they think the like button is causing more problems than it solves, they'll probably make it go away.
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Well, *good* moderation, and I think that this place has it (IMO), which is one of the reasons why I stick around. It's funny, though, in how in the last 20+ years online, I've never been a mod, at my own insistence. I tend (and was worse in the past) to have a short-fuse, and used to let the power go to my head. Closest I ever came was when I nicked ops privileges on an IRC channel is when I kept them for just long enough to let the administrators get themselves a channel-protection bot (of course, for fun, I kick-banned them to show them what is possible, and then explained things).
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: valkygrrl on 05 Feb 2015, 17:41 ---Likes are a wonderful idea. Friends will start liking all of each other's posts, cliques will be obvious, new people _will_ know who it it not permissible to disagree with and exactly how many people will dogpile on them for expressing a contrary view.
PLus a like button is all like social and stuff! Everyone loves facebook right? Making something more social networkish will uh, popular with the kids and... Nope I've got nothing.
But I'll press the like button like a good little monkey since that is The Way Things Are now.
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I don't even look at who's posting when I click the Like button, nor do I seek out specific people's posts. If I agree with a post, I agree with a post, regardless of who posted it.
I imagine that most people here -aren't- 5-year-olds, and aren't likely overly prone to behavior better suited to a gradeschool playground. I never fit into any cliques growing up, but I'm not going to let that color my perception of a forum function that, as has been exhaustively discussed in this thread, a shortcut to simply agreed with posts without cluttering up the treads with quotes followed by 'I agree'.
TRVA123:
To those of you making dire predictions about the Forums future, why not just let this play out?
At worst, the mods will step in before the "like induced cliques ruin the forum", and those of us who "like" the "like" button idea will shut up.
At best the forum will be exactly the same, but with a like button.
hedgie:
Many groups form cliques. Sometimes being excluded is actually better, in terms of one's mental health. It is kinda strange, though, going from a total outsider to being considered as a member of one or two. I think that it actually raises one's anxiety levels, officially be a member of one, but having half one's friends in another, and others were hurling accusations, and having to navigate between them to avoid hurting people, especially those who genuinely care about.
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