Jay520 on 07 June 2012
| KylieDog said: Gonna single this issue out in its own post. A 'Like' button. The major benefit to this is a single post that makes a certain statement, if 200 people agree with it they can just click 'like' then everyone can see 200 people agreed with that post. Currently 200 people would need reply to the post to agree with it, and most people do not bother and people would not want to read pages of "I agree". Everyone needs see the likes to know how many agree. What you must NOT do with a like button: - No reputation system, result will be people spamming popular opinions trying to get likes, ends up as spam and detracts from forum. - No record/count of the likes ANYWHERE outside the individual post (this includes trying to add a '1000 likes' type website badge), it is for people to agree with a single post and make it visible for all, nothing else. If a count is kept anywhere, reputation system problem. - No moving posts about based on number of likes. - No dislike button, and no hiding posts. Internet has proven it cannot use dislike buttons properly. |
I'd say only the liker and 'likee' can see the like. Everyone else doesn't have to know that Mark has been liked. There is no benefit to it. It could cause trouble though, if one controversial post gets a lot of likes, then half of the site is offended and that could cause a host of problems. It's better if only the person liked knew he was liked. (and the liker of course)
