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Offline henry_martini

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Re: Thanks button for forums?
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2014, 14:38:47 »
It may be a feature of phpBB, but I don't think SMF have a mod for this yet.  At least I haven't managed to find one on their site...

http://smfhelp.org/index.php?topic=63.0, it is a kind of [Like] in SMF. It could be modified to display another text if I understand correctly. ;)
Or this: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=506743.0
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Re: Thanks button for forums?
« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2014, 08:52:50 »
Hm I think its fine how it is now, can always leave a comment to say what you like about it.

Otherwise you might get some sort of competition or such, even against yourself regarding amount of likes. Some people might feel insecure if their first project receives so much more likes than their second one for example, even when they put more effort into it.

Just pointing out that it may have a nasty unintentional side effect.

With comments, I think that a few elaborate comments can really make it all more worthwhile than a 100 likes.


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Re: Thanks button for forums?
« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2014, 09:12:16 »
Hm I think its fine how it is now, can always leave a comment to say what you like about it.

Otherwise you might get some sort of competition or such, even against yourself regarding amount of likes. Some people might feel insecure if their first project receives so much more likes than their second one for example, even when they put more effort into it.

Just pointing out that it may have a nasty unintentional side effect.

With comments, I think that a few elaborate comments can really make it all more worthwhile than a 100 likes.

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Re: Thanks button for forums?
« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2014, 13:17:46 »
Otherwise you might get some sort of competition or such, even against yourself regarding amount of likes. Some people might feel insecure if their first project receives so much more likes than their second one for example, even when they put more effort into it.

Just pointing out that it may have a nasty unintentional side effect.

This was my main concern too.

A long time ago we used to have a "karma" feature (built into SMF) which was a little bit similar to a "like" function. You could give a member a positive or negative point and the tally was then recorded on their profile. This worked quite well for a time until we realised some people were taking it very seriously and checking their points every time they visited the forum. It was also too easy for someone with a grievance against another member to abuse the karma feature, and that became upsetting for some people.

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Re: Thanks button for forums?
« Reply #14 on: May 01, 2014, 22:40:50 »
Hm I think its fine how it is now, can always leave a comment to say what you like about it.
The idea is that users who have no idea what to write apart from 'I like it' or 'well done' (and then don't write at all) can leave some 'quick' feedback additional to the written comments. I guess that it is helpful too for international users without the ability to express themselves in elaborate English. And it can be used by (new) members who want to express late approval instead of resurrecting old threads (which is sometimes seen as a problem). Of couse you can still write what you like about it.

Otherwise you might get some sort of competition or such, even against yourself regarding amount of likes. Some people might feel insecure if their first project receives so much more likes than their second one for example, even when they put more effort into it.

Just pointing out that it may have a nasty unintentional side effect.
The very same side effects occur with comments.

With comments, I think that a few elaborate comments can really make it all more worthwhile than a 100 likes.
Obviously forums are meant to discuss and to collect and write comments. As said these [likes] provide just additional positive feedback that goes unnoticed otherwise.

It actually works were I have seen it, e.g. in KW where the same discussion went on before it was introduced.

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