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explicit:

--- Quote from: TRVA123 on 05 Feb 2015, 19:48 ---To those of you making dire predictions about the Forums future, why not just let this play out?


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The like system will become sentient and somehow - Through wacky governmental incompetence - take over the world. It won't be all bad though, I hear the gruel they'll feed us only has a little bit of arsenic.

lepetitfromage:
I think the formation of cliques based solely on the existence of a "like" button is a bit of a stretch. I think there are certainly people who fall into social groups but I find that is generally based on common ground, shared experiences and empathy- not "that person is cool". I also find the notion that it will suppress intelligent conversation in favor of conformity and peer pressure to be a smidge insulting and I think the forumites deserve to be given more credit. This has evolved into a safe space for intelligent and informed discourse, so long as the parties involved don't become belligerent. I don't see a small button changing any of that. I think any other means to show our forum family that we support them is a good idea.

If any button would allow members to dogpile on people for their ideas, I think it would be a "dislike" button and I'm definitely glad we don't have one of those.

swapna:
I don't like the like button, and I ignore them as much as i can. If it weren't used like an 'I agree' button, but more like an 'oh, this post was thoughtful even though I might not agree with it', I'd probably like it more, but at the moment it's stuff like 'SQUEE CLAIRE DID THAT THING!'  :clairedoge: that gets 'liked', so it doesn't even serve as a good method of identifying the good posts out of a long thread. I also think that very few people just post 'I agree', but add their own thoughts - this makes a discussion way more interesting than just clicking 'I LIKE'

Thrudd:
I can agree with you to a degree on that point.

The like is a work in progress as far as I can tell.
A first baby step to see how the forumites deal with the new button no matter how crude it may seem at the moment.

My personal feeling is that as long as this "new thing" doesn't cause a meltdown of the forum then we will soon see a better implementation once the right person has the will and time to put it together.

I would appreciate any changes to  the implementation, though the concept itself is a good one.


* Button menu on the right edge of the posts with the other buttons instead of inserted at the footer - right now it is awkward and uncomfortable, like a stainless steel Halls
* icons that are recognizable at a glance - hover text could not hurt either but I am not sure if coding such is all that easy or simple to do - my code skills are of the op code variety
* More than one category - like / appreciate / applause - agree - thoughtful / thought provoking - the pun jar [for the ones we appreciate - think of it as a tip jar - yes I am encouraging puns] - butts [why does it have to be butts - because drawing a cloaca that small would confuse people]
As already mentioned a few times and it does not hurt to repeat warnings based on experience - no negative options - if they dont have anything nice to say then dont give them the option to be mean in another way.

Penquin47:
My main problem with the like button is that, on my theme at least (forum default), I keep thinking it's a spoiler button.  A couple times now I've clicked on it to read the spoiler only to find I just liked a post that I didn't mean to (not that there was anything wrong with the post necessarily).

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