This also validates a serious need for a forum facing skill area where those that have "copy/paste" skills and "quick witted reply" skills to above Lvl4 can buy and train the "additional like capability" skill which would preempt and CANCEL out other likes ... MID-POST!!! UNLESS
The respondent has trained "pre-emptions", the skill that allows the finishing and posting of said post AND inserts a default like regardless of ANY of the skills listed above - however CCP might have to nerf that in the next patch - for as it stands this is too overpowered for the average poster.

Should the postee have "inertia response" trained, (a subsection to forum warrior and goon hater to lvl3) they will then have the capability to organise a bot to automatically remove all likes to the previous 4 posts (having trained it to lvl5 oc) and accrue those likes for himself.

Come on ppl - we need this

Lighten up Ciba - its a pixel centric GAME. Have fun

Other people are just popular and have a lot of *ss kissing fans.

Seriously? Who cares.
Without a dislike button the whole equation is meaningless anyway.

It's common knowledge that if a vet with many likes posts against a newbie with few likes, the vet comes away victorious 9 times out of 10. Many say that the newbie can bring more newbie friends to drown out the vet or find vet friends to guide them in making better content but that hardly addresses the problem at hand.

We must work together to bring attention to this issue and fix it.

I'm relatively new regarding reading the forums and enjoyed it at first. Then I started noticing that all the forum vets had alot more likes than us newbies. I've tried like whoring as much as I can but there seems to be this 'like wall' I can not penetrate. I've decided to push through but alot of my friends who started forums with me have stopped because of this issue.

What is CCP going to do to bridge this 'like gap' between newbies and vet?

Start your like whoring here, The Like And Get Likes Thread.



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This is an extremely serious matter than the CSM takes very seriously indeed.

I think that there is a good argument to be made for a "PLEX for Likes" system, but I think this forum PLEX system should mirror the in-game system: rather than buy likes for PLEX directly from CCP they should be sourced from other players.

Furthermore: In order to prevent the inevitable uncontrollable Like inflation that will inevitably occur, CCP should limit the number of likes that can be gained or granted by any single account. However, I recognise that some players will want to take the risk of losing some of their likes in order for the chance to gain larger numbers by skillfull forum diplomacy or even just good posting.

Therefore I propose that the sub forums be categorised in to "hi-sec" "lo-sec" and "0.0" forums as follows.

In the hi-sec forums (eg: New Citizens Q&A, EVE Information Centre) , you will be able to receive and donate a maximum of 10 likes per account

In lo-sec forums (eg: Crime & punishment, Ships & Fittings) you will be able to receive or donate a maximum of 20 likes per account, but you can also spend one of your likes to remove a like from a post from another player. However you can only spend 1 like per day this way against any one player.

In 0.0 forums (eg: COAD, Market Discussion), the maximum is 50 receive/donates per account, and there is no restriction on how you can use your likes to remove likes by other players.

Just make a **** ton of posts. When Christmas hits you'll have a ton of likes.

No, I'm not kidding.

It's common knowledge that if a vet with many likes posts against a newbie with few likes, the vet comes away victorious 9 times out of 10. Many say that the newbie can bring more newbie friends to drown out the vet or find vet friends to guide them in making better content but that hardly addresses the problem at hand.

We must work together to bring attention to this issue and fix it.

Listen man it's a chore washing all that lipstick off. Check your privilege.

@Malcanis Have you considered an "Aurum for likes" program? You could have a whole range of "designer likes", people will pay through the nose for a nice set of "likes"....

Interesting how this person received more likes on this thread than any of his others combined. Coincidence..I think not...

@Malcanis Have you considered an "Aurum for likes" program? You could have a whole range of "designer likes", people will pay through the nose for a nice set of "likes"....