Allow to like forum posts again and restore the existing likes

[Espionage724]

I think Likes would be fine. Or Likes and Dislikes but shown separately (like on the Register) rather than the net (like on *shudder* Reddit)

Or alternatively just having "reactions" (heart, thumbs up, thumbs down, laugh, angry)? Either way, there needs to be some kind of feedback that's not just adding a useless "I agree" comment.

It's already available as posting constructive feedback

You can me-too and also post something descriptive (like this ), and I feel likes and emoticons only encourage bad manners within communities. Who wants descriptions when I could have left this at something quippy for a like?

[Old Grouch]

I think Likes would be fine. Or Likes and Dislikes but shown separately (like on the Register) rather than the net (like on *shudder* Reddit)

Or alternatively just having "reactions" (heart, thumbs up, thumbs down, laugh, angry)? Either way, there needs to be some kind of feedback that's not just adding a useless "I agree" comment.

👍 d'accord, mee eens, ...

I participate in a forums where each post with feedback has a section where each choosable emoji type is accompanied by a list of userids that chose it. Which is another way of doing it.

[Estranged1906]

I think Likes would be fine. Or Likes and Dislikes but shown separately (like on the Register) rather than the net (like on *shudder* Reddit)

Or alternatively just having "reactions" (heart, thumbs up, thumbs down, laugh, angry)? Either way, there needs to be some kind of feedback that's not just adding a useless "I agree" comment.

[Old Grouch]

Sites where downvoting is enabled:

• Ars Technica - used to silence/cancel people with an opposing PoV
• Reddit - used to silence/cancel people with an opposing PoV

The other websites where I've seen it? Just the same.

A nice idea indeed. This will work well, specially on this website dedicated to an obscure wanna-be OS that attracts the most marginal.

Anything that will be said against the marginal PoV will be downvoted to hell from the get go, no matter how valid and factual it is.

You tried to make a based post, in the end what you've just offered is not just "infantile", it's outright evil.

Or The Register, where upvotes and downvotes are tallied separately. The same is done in the comments on articles in the Daily Mail website in the UK. Soylent News has an interesting user-generated moderation system, rather than likes. It is complicated, but works tolerably well for the current Soylent News user-base.

There's no perfect feedback mechanism. Currently the only way, on this site, is to post posts that rate other posts. Perhaps that works better for Michael and his (necessary) advertising revenue. Michael needs a way of generating money to run the site and pay for his living expenses, and I'm sure the feedback mechanism affects that.

[avis]

This is infantile at best. A downvote or dislike option wouldn't make it better.

Sites where downvoting is enabled:

• Ars Technica - used to silence/cancel people with an opposing PoV
• Reddit - used to silence/cancel people with an opposing PoV

The other websites where I've seen it? Just the same.

A nice idea indeed. This will work well, specially on this website dedicated to an obscure wanna-be OS that attracts the most marginal.

Anything that will be said against the marginal PoV will be downvoted to hell from the get go, no matter how valid and factual it is.

You tried to make a based post, in the end what you've just offered is not just "infantile", it's outright evil.

[klapaucius]

Forget the likes, add the ignore user button instead (or please point me to the functionality if it exists already).

There's no benefit in having the likes, apart from massaging the forumers' egos, which only incentivizes pathetic flames (over desktop environments, programming languages, OSes, none the less...), personal opinions repeatedly shouted as they were universal truths to be accepted by everybody, by demeaning others' choices or developers' work.

As things stand now, there are too many discussions where the protagonists are only engaged in trying to appear like they are winning an argument and humiliating the opponent in front of an imaginary arena of spectators, who can cheer on with their likes. This is infantile at best. A downvote or dislike option wouldn't make it better.

Yes, there are news websites and forums where the readers can vote up the most interesting comments, but the most voted one is not generally the most insightful and in any case it wouldn't be useful if the posts are not ranked based on their recommendation numbers. Instead, we have to scroll through endless absurd useless exchanges between keyboard warriors (which would never happen in real life, in a non anonymized, face-to-face environment... and that says something) hoping to find a pearl of knowledge or an interesting point of view.

So another good feature would be to have threaded discussions, where one could just move on from a thread which has nothing to offer, or an ignore thread button as well.

Those who enjoy engaging in keyboard battles to show off their (supposed) superiority could continue to do so. Those who have better ways of spending their time could decide, after five, six, ten... irritating posts, that someone has nothing to offer and remove them from their sight.

[avis]

Michael

You could just convert upvotes to "Likes" and enable reactions.

That would be easier than enabling your custom plugin which you haven't been able to accomplish in a month now.

In every other topic people lament the absence of likes.

[overtly6804]

Agreed!

[Old Grouch]

Still battling it... The "reactions" system is enabled and for all users. Been going through all the theme code to verify it's there. And looking in threads there is indeed "reactions__add-reaction--icon" and other "reactions" tags in the footer of each post. But looks like some CSS/JS isn't exactly hitting right. Still working to sort it out.

I'd give you a 'like' as feedback, and encouragement to keep going, but...

Is the plan to have user-chosen icon 'reactions' for postings, together with the usernames reacting, like below?

😍 🤯👍 Annie, John, Fred, and Jolene

[Michael]

Still battling it... The "reactions" system is enabled and for all users. Been going through all the theme code to verify it's there. And looking in threads there is indeed "reactions__add-reaction--icon" and other "reactions" tags in the footer of each post. But looks like some CSS/JS isn't exactly hitting right. Still working to sort it out.