Piticent Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Well, under my first attempt to use this feature, i find just like the "vote posts up/down" feature, likes are locked on 0. same reason as the voting posts up and down question i suppose? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedhaun Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Like the voting posts up/down on the old version of the forum, the administration team has never enabled this feature (nor ever will since this may have a chance on hurting others' reputation on posts). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Ryan Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 But there's only a like button. If there was a dislike button I could see how that would make sense, but there's not so it just seems like a waste of a cool feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alice ☮ Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Well, what would "liking" do other than show up as a number of likes per post? If that's all it does, then I agree with Ryan. It could be a cool feature. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Ryan Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Yeah, you could even have it only be unlocked by a certain number of posts or something. It could be the new profile picture. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxen Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I wish they worked as well but I can see the logic of them being disabled. Even without the dislike button it could still create friction between members; if one answer gets liked and the other doesn't blaablahh :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilshadowdweller Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 There's no way to just "like" post without effecting reputation? On another message board, you can just hit "like" and it'd show who "likes" the post. I suppose if this can't be altered I can understand why the admins wouldn't like it. It's a shame it's not made so we could just "like" a post without having to effect a user's reputation. Couldn't we possibly just place a cap on likes? Maybe if you have, say, 200+ posts? Or some sort of limit? I know that's more than I have, I'm just thinking realistically...I mean, I only want to use the system positively. There are a lot of great posts which I would like to have something like "lilshadowdweller and 3 other users liked this". It's like giving a kudos! It may event prevent some members from simply quote others and saying things like "ditto", or "what she/he said", which as I understand it, is frowned upon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piticent Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 Just as I assumed. I was just double-checking. To answer the "why can't you alter it" question, as with the previous feature, Ian would have t go in the coding, and that's asking for a disaster. Thx Neo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Ryan Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Ian would have t go in the coding, and that's asking for a disaster. Thx Neo! ^lol Wait, can someone explain the reputation part to me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrtbrk Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 It doesn't actually reflect reputation in the +/- sense. What it does is allow you and others to see if your post is credible (or if people agree with what you're saying) as it will send you a notifcation saying who liked your post and will give others a heads up that your comment/topic is in fact giving good information/is helpful etc. Think of it like a Facebook like button. If you like what they said, think the gave good information, think the post is funny (or whatever reason) you can like it. From what I can gather from googling, it doesn't actually add or remove a rep status that appears on your profile. That's a different system all together. :) Anime, Ian and Lydia Trebond 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Hrtbrk has said it all. :) Thanks for clearing that up. We're still in the process of testing and fine-tuning the system. Thanks for hanging in there with us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piticent Posted January 6, 2012 Author Share Posted January 6, 2012 But staff can like posts? This is a very confusing new system o_O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xepha Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 But staff can like posts? This is a very confusing new system o_O As previously stated by Ian, we are currently *testing* this feature. The only way for us to *test* it is to grant staff the power to *like* stuff to see if we will carry on with members. If we decide to enable these features, we will give them to members as well. Otherwise, we will remove the liking capacities from our staff members. Makes sense? Yes. Good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piticent Posted January 6, 2012 Author Share Posted January 6, 2012 Ooooh that make a lot more sense now. Thanks for the clarification! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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