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Grey Stormshadow
draketrain
Confederation of xXPIZZAXx
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Posted - 2012.02.17 17:54:00 -
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Petrus Blackshell wrote:One of the things that has baffled me to no end about these new forums is the "like" system. I'm not sure what purpose it serves. I have been more of a forum warrior/troll lately than I have in the past, and that has apparently garnered me a bunch of these "likes". They were at times used as tacit "I agree with you", or as "your post is funny", or simply "I am an ******* who uses a script to like a whole page of posters". Upon reaching "big round numbers" of "likes" (10, 50, 100, and now almost 500) I get weird vague feelings of accomplishment or affirmation... but I also feel bad for having them. In short, I am confused.
The confusion is only compounded by the fact that the thread listing shows a thread's "likes" as a total of all "likes" on all posts, even if they are all "liking" the second comment about how terrible the OP and the whole thread is.
What does "liking" a post mean to you? When do you "like" as opposed to posting a "+1" post, or similar? What, if anything, do you think upon seeing a person with a lot of "likes"? Do you even care?
Edit: added more airquotes around the word "like" everywhere.
This is pretty much the reason why I disabled the entire "total likes" counter from classic forum style by default.
Likes to single post can be used to indicate many things, but total count has no real use.
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Grey Stormshadow
draketrain
Confederation of xXPIZZAXx
927
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Posted - 2012.02.17 18:11:00 -
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Bumblefck wrote:Petrus Blackshell wrote:Bumblefck wrote:
Hmm, seems like something someone who doesn't have a lot of likes would say.
Define "a lot".  Basically, anything > Greyhawk Stormshadow's Like count
Lol... funny thing is that I don't even know how many "total likes" I have and couldn't care less :)
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Grey Stormshadow
draketrain
Confederation of xXPIZZAXx
927
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Posted - 2012.02.17 18:20:00 -
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I'm sure you all are aware that it is possible to use automated script to increase likes count. Those scripts are available from this same forum and CPP employees are making jokes in same thread, so it can't be very bannable action either :)
The total count is more or less a joke, but as someone said earlier - it may give rough idea how active/old poster someone has been. I would prefer to see post count and character age for this purpose though.
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Grey Stormshadow
draketrain
Confederation of xXPIZZAXx
927
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Posted - 2012.02.17 18:26:00 -
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Petrus Blackshell wrote:Grey Stormshadow wrote:
The total count is more or less a joke, but as someone said earlier - it may give rough idea how active/old poster someone has been. I would prefer to see post count and character age for this purpose though.
... We need the seniority "ranks" tags that exist on phpBB forums, stat.
And dislike button :D
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Grey Stormshadow
draketrain
Confederation of xXPIZZAXx
927
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Posted - 2012.02.17 18:36:00 -
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Wouldn't it be fun to have entire new group who would try gain most negative total likes? I'm sure that it would carry the content quality to entire new level.
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Grey Stormshadow
draketrain
Confederation of xXPIZZAXx
927
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Posted - 2012.02.17 19:26:00 -
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I come to the forums mainly to whine, so in reality I shouldn't have any likes at all. For this reason I've come to a conclusion that there has to be something wrong with the like system as a whole :)
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Grey Stormshadow
draketrain
Confederation of xXPIZZAXx
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Posted - 2012.02.18 10:31:00 -
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Zimmy Zeta wrote:CCP have already forseen this kind of forum-warfare and made it impossible. 
Has to be accident or forum software default behaviour .)
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