It's been hard for me not to wonder why BYOND has not installed a "Like" button on forums and their posts. Even though many of you see that as a sign of a Facebook-takeover, I find it a rather entertaining way to agree with someone without making the post, "I agree!" This is just my opinion, and I don't expect Lummox or Tom to place one on the website anytime soon, nor would I pressure them about it. However it would be quite convenient for those replies that give me a chuckle. I'm not sure about you, but there have been several posts in which I have laughed and would have "Liked" had there been such an option.
Leave your opinion, love it or hate it, it doesn't matter to me. Just try not to turn anything into a Flame War. I'm quite aware of how easy that is on these forums.
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 Nov 10 2011, 6:56 pm
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Nov 10 2011, 8:51 pm
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Moonlight Memento
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As long as it's just a Like button and doesn't get a "Dislike" button, there's no reason not to agree with the idea.
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Moonlight Memento wrote:
As long as it's just a Like button and doesn't get a "Dislike" button, there's no reason not to agree with the idea. i don't agree with it because i see it as a way of cluttering the forums | |
It's a good idea and as we're merging the forum & blog system, we can just add it to everything at once. I think this is the same functionality that we have for our current "facebook repost" but the more modern way to do it? I'll have to get with the times...
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I personally support a "Like this post!" button. Just don't get a "dislike this post" button, too, because that's never lead to anything good.
On the other hand, I hate always having to post "+1 to this post", "Agreed", "This", etc, when I agree with someone and it's relevant to the topic of my agreement with said person's post. | |
I like this idea, it would be pretty convenient and save people from "lol" post. the new forum/blog thing Tom was talking about sounds interesting.
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You could use addthis: http://www.addthis.com/
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If users are generally going to only look at a feed of content from blogs/forums they're fans of, having a way to list things by popularity might be a good way for people to find blogs they'd like but aren't currently fans of. This would also be a good opportunity to replace the "yea/nay" with just "like" =)
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Forum posts should not have a like button.
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Liking posts wouldn't serve any purpose, your simple reply already bumps the topic and informs everyone of your opinion.
They're also pretty useless on blogs as well. If they bumped blog posts or gave them more exposure then they would be useful. The BYOND Cast blog even goes as far as asking their listeners to nay their posts just to show how silly it is. | |
Forum_account wrote:
If users are generally going to only look at a feed of content from blogs/forums they're fans of, having a way to list things by popularity might be a good way for people to find blogs they'd like but aren't currently fans of. This would also be a good opportunity to replace the "yea/nay" with just "like" =) I think only having a way to show positiveness towards a post is bad, it's basically showing that people only care about positive feedback, when it's negative feedback that is most important. | |
Super Saiyan X wrote:
I think only having a way to show positiveness towards a post is bad, it's basically showing that people only care about positive feedback, when it's negative feedback that is most important. The only feedback that's useful to the author is feedback with substance (ex: comments). The nay/yea count is only useful to other people. The nay count can be used by the admins to identify potentially inappropriate content (I'm pretty sure that's what it's used for now), but this will be less of an issue when the front page shows a feed specific to what you're a fan of. The yea count could be used to recommend posts to people. | |
I would agree, but I am going to expand the rationale a bit.
There is a very practical risk with liking technical matters, that 'popular' response gets liked far more than the best response. I can actually point to a number of technical Q/A places (stackoverflow is one good example) where this doesn't happen, however the current community we hold and the kind of community stackoverflow attracts do differ. I'm quite in favour of being more positive of our situation; and please do discard my opinion if it happens that I'm just an old fellow who's seen too many bad posts to see the current forum for what it is, but I can't help but notice a good number of posts (and posters, more notably) who often just 'wing' or make up their advice, seemedly for the sake of posting. It would be an awful shame, were these posts which have no grounding in fact, be the liked posts and favoured by people who unfortunately don't and can't know better. If I happen to be wrong in thinking we'd like or up-vote these posts, then the idea works well. As for the notion of people going "yup I approve" on a forum itself with no adjoining points, it's silly, and should I spy it, I'll endeavour to delete it. | |
As for the notion of people going "yup I approve" on a forum itself with no adjoining points, it's silly, and should I spy it, I'll endeavour to delete it. Then the Like button would solve it. You're criticizing (I think, anyway) the Like button idea but don't want any solutions in which the Like button would solve. | |
I'm criticising the notion that there is anything to solve in the first place. The better posts stand on their own merits, and the fact you or I go "yup, I approve" should be superfluous.
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Stephen001 wrote:
I'm criticising the notion that there is anything to solve in the first place. Because there isn't anything to solve. I procured the idea of a forum like button to more or less be something to: A) Cut down short agreement responses to forum posts. (Which really aren't that bad so I don't consider them a problem.) B) Let people whom don't actually want to participate in the conversation, browse through and like the posts to which they are entertained. Likes shouldn't bump a post and they shouldn't be accrued like points toward a specific posts merit. It's just something extra. However I do believe that changing the Yea/Nay system on blog posts would help keep down a lot of unwarranted stresses and aggravation. People will Nay for little or no reason, simply to be trolls, to which unfortunately BYOND has managed to accumulate quite a group of over the years, like any internet group with a forum. (Including myself on one or two occasions) | |
I'm generally up for removing yea/nay. As a moderator of that area, it's quickly become a factor I ignore, as usually the posts that get reliably and universally nayed are ones that it's pretty apparent on first inspection require some moderation.
Yea could've been handy, but it's basically popularist now. Teka123 for example can post "hai guiz waz up?" as a blog post and net +10 yeas, but an unknown new BYOND member can post a very interesting and detailed development update for his new game, and get perhaps +7 yeas. It's in a sense, a bit of useful feedback for the new member (it's saving grace I would suppose), but doesn't really work out when he looks over other blogs and sees drivel getting +10 yeas. | |