Likes

Read a few pages back on this sub-forum to where likes were added. I think the discussions on the forums would increase in quality if they were removed. I might be projecting here, but it seems like there are a lot of posts that are made for the sole purpose of gaining likes. Members are trying a little too hard to make their posts witty. It's a neat feature, and it's not unbearable or anything. I just wanna see people's opinions on this.

Discuss.

 

Ironically I agree.

 

Now we just need noburu to agree with this and I won't know what world this is.

IMO, the like system exists for the sole purpose of growing your e-peen. Excluding those few exceptions when someone posts something intelligent. But, those are few and far between on this forum.

 

Well it's intended functions are

A. To discreetly give people kudos when deserved. To communicate your approval a like is a lot more elegant than a whole post just to say that you like something. This feedback may be useful for those learning how to post well.

B. Possibly to give some indication of who and who isn't good at posting.

However this fails for the basic reason that it is powered by the community, 90% of which is crap. As the best like farmer in the entire galaxy I know for a fact that the best way to get likes isn't to make well thought-out and useful posts, but rather than to be snarky or mean. I'm sure a lot of you find my like farms to be obnoxious (despite how many people "like" them). I find them obnoxious too but likes transform posting into a game, and I try to do well in games.

It's similar to KAG and kill:death ratio. Your KD is an easily understood measure but it isn't equal to skill. As I'm sure many of you understand a lot of people take it way too seriously and in the pursuit of high KD they begin to engage in behaviour that is contrary to good play. Example: Trying to hold down a wall long enough for the builders to save themselves vs running all the way back to base for heals leaving the builders to fend for themselves. The former is obviously the better play but the second is better for KD. In the same way a lot of people make stupid posts that aren't good posts but get a lot of likes.

Also I think we should have a look at post count.

 

Best way for newbies to know what people are oldfags.
I know that you want to fight mass-posters but post count actually serves a purpose too. The fact that people ruin everything is a subject of different discussion.

 

Keep the like button and add in a vote as spam or dislike button, that way people won't just make posts saying "lol ur pot is useless and I you smell like dog shit" just for likes

I do admit though getting likes encourages me to make my posts better

 

Mass dislike incoming when dislike button appears.

 

What would be wrong with a dislike button?

Or am I misinterpreting your post?

 

It's a huge possibility of people randomly or because personal hate just to dislike every single post of yours or anybodies!

 

it's also a possibility of people randomly liking posts or liking because i certain person wrote it. If MM made a posted in this thread that KAG 1.0 will never come out and spent all of his money on pokemon cards it would still get at least 3 likes.

That is an extreme example but people can make a bunch of accounts to farm likes, people can like post's based on bias. If they add a dislike button (which I don't think will happen anytime soon) and it gets heavily abused they can tweak it or remove it.

 

wish i thought of this, couldn't agree more

While i see where you're coming from I think that a dislike button would be a great idea, but if they haven't put one in at this point I doubt that they plan too anytime soon.

 

Post counts are standard for non-anonymous forums. Ej explains it perfectly.

That took some balls, man. I'm pretty sure we're all guilty of this, tho. But it's not us; it's the system.

This is absolutely an idea. It would definitely get rid of like-whoring, and still keep the purpose the likes serve.

 

No likes = Few throphies gone

Nay, we should let the likes be

 

Again, we should go with Downburst's idea for this exact reason.

 

Is it ironic that a lot of the posts that want to get rid of likes or change them are getting the most likes?

 

just a couple things to consider: (not what i say matters)
1. if you remove profile like counting towards likes people like Alistasia will lose 99.9% of their likes
2. if you remove likes all together how can people like Xiaojin67 live?
3. i would feel sad that i wouldn't get those little sparks of happiness every like i recieve. (the same kind of feeling from recieving a +1 in kag)