If there was any justice in the world, the man who added likes to forums would be in jail
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can we have likes please?
- Thread starter lacer
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If there was any justice in the world, the man who added likes to forums would be in jail
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slightly less than half of the participants aren't opposed to it so eat a bag of garbage george
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this an example of a post i would like instead of responding to if i had the chance
Yeah, I've done an OT myself, and essay-type stuff in the past. But the same still applies. People can express in posts criticism, encouragement, or praise. That's much more valuable than a wordless like/dislike.
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nate silver says willful misinterpretation of data is as bad as fabricating data. i say i've dunked 100% more basketballs than nate silver, regardless of how much lower the rims might be than regulation.
what if we also made posts stay on top depending on the likes they have
say like
a 'most popular' aggregrate
wait no then we'd just be reddit
and reddit is garbage
If this happens, what the forum needs is someone who registers, never ever posts, but likes a bunch of posts all over the forum as their only means of communication.
We have one of those on another forum I'm on. Getting a like from that account is like getting a faint message from some kind of entity in the spirit realm, or like the ghost of one of your ancestors.
We have one of those on another forum I'm on. Getting a like from that account is like getting a faint message from some kind of entity in the spirit realm, or like the ghost of one of your ancestors.
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i dont know what's more disrespectful about this picture; the VERY CLEARLY Photoshop®-ed like to dislike ratio or the inexplicably fucked up aspect ratio of that text
The race for that witty first post is bad enough, but it's over quickly because there can be only one first post. Imagine threads filed with people fishing for that most liked post. We don't need this site to devolve into an imgur comments section where everyone is fighting for those sweet internet points.
honestly I kinda dig static avatars
if everyone started having gif avatars it'd be like some willy wonka harry potter shit
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you say that like it's a compromise instead of a further demand
In a way it is a compromise, since most users hate animated avatars.
People should be posting their genuine opinions not some post designed to win a popularity contest.
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very possible but sadly the world will never know :(
tho i think the ratio has only gotten more dire my dude
I think it would work well with the following caveats:
- Only you can see the likes on your posts
- No dislikes
There. No worrying about bandwagoning, no worrying about people shitting on you with a button click, and you get to know other posters that agree with you without page after page of thread clutter.
- Only you can see the likes on your posts
- No dislikes
There. No worrying about bandwagoning, no worrying about people shitting on you with a button click, and you get to know other posters that agree with you without page after page of thread clutter.
I voted no because the answer was funny, but I am neutral towards the idea. As long as there are no Dislikes.
What if there was a "seen" button you could use on a post that only activates on posts that quote you? Perhaps it could have a submenu where you could choose agree/disagree reactions, or could simply opt for "seen," as in acknowledged. Or "seen" could be a notification that only the replying poster can see.
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this is the kind of psychotic thinking that leads to people enabling read receipts, a far more insidious and repulsive feature of modern technology than the comparatively innocuous like
Well, I'm sorry. It could be an optional feature you could disable in privacy settings, of course, if you don't want people to know what you're looking at. Like the "last seen" feature that already exists.
This sounds like a good way to get trolls/burner accounts to brigade and upvote some post that is absolute shit but not shitty enough to get banned over.