by Ziggy587 Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:45 am
So I just reread through this thread. It seems we were mostly agreeing that instead of having a like system we should try and encourage more posting. Well, we haven't done either LOL. That said, now that some time has passed, I think we should do both.
I think we SHOULD implement a simple like system. Each post would have the ability to be liked, and will display the likes it received at the bottom of said post. The other forum I referenced earlier in this thread works like this: The first few people to like a post will be listed, like "Ziggy587 liked this post." I believe up to 3 names will be listed, but after that it'll just give a count. For example, "Ziggy587, marunrun, o.pwuaioc and 3 others liked this post." And it's a link, if you click on it a popup shows you a list of all the people that liked it. Which I think is preferable since you wouldn't want a long list at the bottom of a post. When a post is liked, a bar at the bottom of the post displays this info. It's not so obtrusive, yet sticks out enough so you can noticed the post received likes. It has a little blue thumbs up icon to make it more noticeable. On this particular forum, each member has a post count as well as a like count. But I believe here on Racketboy, we should tally the likes per post but not per member.
And I think we should still try and encourage more posting. Now there's two ways I can think of to do this, and I think we should do both. One is to outright ask, and this is easy to do (we just need to actually do it). The other is to lead by example. If more of us start posting "like" comments in this way, others will see that and it might encourage more people to start posting in this way as well. When everyone else seems to be doing something, you feel more comfortable doing it. You walk into an office party and there's a buffet table but no one is getting food from it and no one is eating anything, you would be unlikely to take any food. But if you walked into the party and there were plenty of people taking and eating food, you would feel comfortable doing the same.
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