Suggestion: Like or Thank feature for forum posts

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Stratochu

Stratochu

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Would these systems work with the forum software or be wanted here? One is thanking a member for a useful post (like The following 3 members say Thank You to Uncle Sam For This Useful Post: Joe Blow, John Doe and Richard Roe". The dislike option would be not thanking the post.

Maybe giving thumbs up/thumbs down, or a basic like/dislike system for the posts.

Do Null, Smokedaddy, Brooklyn or Champ agree?
 
Just a "Thank you" feature for me will do.
 
gotta use cwcisms. a "hmm yeah" button would be perfect.
 
I've discussed a similar idea with the staff before and the concern was that it would make the forum into a big circle jerk and people would take it too seriously and so it was shot down.
 
champthom said:
I've discussed a similar idea with the staff before and the concern was that it would make the forum into a big circle jerk and people would take it too seriously and so it was shot down.
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*like*
 
Stratochu said:
Do Null, Smokedaddy, Brooklyn or Champ agree?
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There are a couple of mods that I'm aware of that enable a thanks feature, so from a technical standpoint it's no issue.
I personally would rather avoid a more sophisticated like/dislike system because I feel it leads to people not wanting to post controversial opinions for fear of being downvoted and sort of turns forum posting into a political popularity contest. The websites that I've seen employ that kind of system, especially the smaller ones where people are likely to recognise others across threads, tended towards having that as a primary focus rather than as a side-function, and I feel that it was to the detriment of post quality.

I don't have any real issue with a simple thanks system, though, and I've seen that used pretty well on some other forums as a nice side-note while still serving the general function of "feedback". I think we briefly discussed using a thanks mod back when we first started using Forumer, but I don't remember why we opted against it.
 
It works better if:
1) you don't like everything
2) you don't add a dislike button (surely report would suffice).
This means that the like button doesn't become something to aleinate people or whatever, but more used so we can like epic posts (like the ones in the CWCki forum quote of the day thread).

Having a like button means that people won't have to reply to posts saying things like "you win the Internet" or whatever. Fucking hate posts like that.
 
People thumbing up comments?
What is this Youtube?
 
Male said:
People thumbing up comments?
What is this Youtube?
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Like this post and you will have good luck, your crush will ask you out and you will win the lottery!
Ignore this post and Nick Bate will come out from under your bed and sodomize you.
 
Saney said:
Male said:
People thumbing up comments?
What is this Youtube?
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Like this post and you will have good luck, your crush will ask you out and you will win the lottery!
Ignore this post and Nick Bate will come out from under your bed and sodomize you.
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Hmm yeah if you cry evrytiem
 
Before I go to sleep, it looks like nobody else has mentioned this.
If you can't see the button (should be next to the Quote button), you need to empty your cache. I had the same issue earlier and that fixed it for me.
 
Weird, it didn't come up for me at first, but it is now, even though I didn't empty my cache.
 
I don't think the thanking system is a good idea. It will just make this forum into a popularity contest, and the unthanked will feel left out and all that.
 
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