"Likes" Enhancement

[JEMC]

potato_hamster said:

JEMC said:

The problem with how other sites handle the like/dislike system is that posts are displayed regarding the number of likes/dislikes they have, which can led to a fight to have the most popular post and be featured fist. It's already stated that this would not be the case here, and that postd will still be displayed in chonological order.

Seriously, I've been (as a lurker, but still) on many forums with a like or thanks or reputation system where it was far from a problem. It's more a problem of how it's implemented, and the guys here seem to be doing the right steps in that regard, and how the userbase uses it.

Besides, a couple users have already posted ways to reduce even more the possibility of abuse by making it only visible to the author of the post or by simply giving us the option to see or hide the names of those that have liked the posts.

Why not just make the like total of likes a post has only visible to the author if you really want to take the teeth out of any like system?

And thus making it pointless to a point where there is no reason to keep it like you want? Sorry, but that's not going to happen.

CrazyGamer2017 said:

JEMC said:

As for people misbehaving and using the likes to attack someone. First you (or well, "we" as a whole) should be more proactive and report those wrong doers so mods can do their job. Sometimes mods don't do anything because they arrive late as no one has warned them about what was happening before. Give them the benefit of doubt there's always time to complain later.

If I may venture an opinion I think moderating a like is going too far. If a post is considered worthy of moderation then fine cause when you post a comment you write in clear words a message which can then be subject to moderation but moderating a simple "like" seems to be over the top. feels more like a politically correct thing to do. As others have said you can like a comment for different reasons and simply liking someone else's comment is in my opinion too vague to deserve moderation.

What would be next then? Moderating everybody that does not clearly disagree with a post that gets moderated? Cause not disagreeing implies agreeing?

Maybe I haven't expressed myself as I should, but I wasn't talking about moderating people for liking (or not) a post, I was talking about moderating them for harassing someone either in that thread, in others or through messages or the wall, because he/she liked a post they didn't or because he/she didn't like a post they did.

No one has to be banned for thinking differently, but they should if they start attacking those that don't think like they do.