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Old 09-19-2019, 06:44 AM
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I'm not liking it very much. I find it ruins the flow when scrolling through the thread.
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Old 09-19-2019, 07:15 AM
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The button itself is fine for me, but the added line between posts saying who liked the post is awkward. I've never seen that in other forum layouts before. Usually it's just that simple "thanked 8 times" line up in the join-date corner and that's it, if people wanted they could "mouse-over" that line to see the list of people who clicked the like button.
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Old 09-19-2019, 07:50 AM
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I agree the detail list should be something hidden until asked for wit a click somewhere.
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The button itself is fine for me, but the added line between posts saying who liked the post is awkward. I've never seen that in other forum layouts before. Usually it's just that simple "thanked 8 times" line up in the join-date corner and that's it, if people wanted they could "mouse-over" that line to see the list of people who clicked the like button.
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I agree the detail list should be something hidden until asked for wit a click somewhere.

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Old 09-19-2019, 11:40 AM
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Don't understand how it works anyway. Yesterday mine said 7 from 7 and I didnt post anything, today it's 5 from four, and I only posted once?
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Old 09-19-2019, 08:19 PM
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Everyone in the world needs to be "liked." That's why you can buy "likes" for Facebook, Twitter and many others to make you feel good and boost your business too. There have been many papers written on this phenomena. You can thank (LOL) Facebook for this annoying feature that you now find everywhere. Unfortunately it has come upon us here too. Some fora even have DISLIKES (thumbs down) but no one wants to be "not liked" so in the interest of NOT insulting people they thankfully (so far) haven't added DISLIKES (thumbs down) as it is available in this forum software. I have seen many forums that add the names of those who "like" you as they did here. As an example, MACRUMORS is one (although not the same software). There are many others. Some forums, rather than LIKES have THANKS as in "Thank you for the helpful post.".
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Everyone in the world needs to be "liked." That's why you can buy "likes" for Facebook, Twitter and many others to make you feel good and boost your business too. There have been many papers written on this phenomena. You can thank (LOL) Facebook for this annoying feature that you now find everywhere. Unfortunately it has come upon us here too. Some fora even have DISLIKES (thumbs down) but no one wants to be "not liked" so in the interest of NOT insulting people they thankfully (so far) haven't added DISLIKES (thumbs down) as it is available in this forum software. I have seen many forums that add the names of those who "like" you as they did here. As an example, MACRUMORS is one (although not the same software). There are many others. Some forums, rather than LIKES have THANKS as in "Thank you for the helpful post.".
The "likes" predate Facebook by around 5 years. They've been a part of the internet forum world since at least 2000, when phpBB was released (what this forum, which uses a stable version of vBulletin, is coded with). Upvotes were introduced back in the days of Bulletin Boards and Usenet, in the 1990's.

Facebook didn't exist until 2004.

You can thank THIS forum's code for the "likes" on Facebook.
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/// weird, same post got posted twice

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The "likes" predate Facebook by around 5 years. They've been a part of the internet forum world since at least 2000, when phpBB was released (what this forum, which uses a stable version of vBulletin, is coded with). Upvotes were introduced back in the days of Bulletin Boards and Usenet, in the 1990's.

Facebook didn't exist until 2004.

You can thank THIS forum's code for the "likes" on Facebook.

Very true. In fact I ran one of first 5 CBBS's (Google Forum-80 software) in the US back in the early 80's on a TRS-80 with 4K of memory running under TRS basic on a 5.25" single sided floppy with a 300 baud modem and a phone line which eventually became 5 1200 (edit: make that then 2400 then 9600) baud modems on 5 phone lines on an "IBM-PC" (Google TBBS Software) . Was also a mod on 2 Compuserve forums so I am quite aware of it. I also run a private forum using vBulletin Cloud but as I am sure you know LIKES meant nothing until Facebook when they were counted in the millions instead of on 1 or 2 hands. Now they can make or break a business or a show business personality. Apples and Oranges. But yes, upvotes and the like have been around for years. Hated them then and still hate them now.

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Everyone in the world needs to be "liked." That's why you can buy "likes" for Facebook, Twitter and many others to make you feel good and boost your business too. There have been many papers written on this phenomena. You can thank (LOL) Facebook for this annoying feature that you now find everywhere. Unfortunately it has come upon us here too. Some fora even have DISLIKES (thumbs down) but no one wants to be "not liked" so in the interest of NOT insulting people they thankfully (so far) haven't added DISLIKES (thumbs down) as it is available in this forum software. I have seen many forums that add the names of those who "like" you as they did here. As an example, MACRUMORS is one (although not the same software). There are many others. Some forums, rather than LIKES have THANKS as in "Thank you for the helpful post.".
I agree that everyone in the world needs to be liked.

I don't understand when you say you can "buy" likes on Facebook. On Facebook there is a like, wow, angry, sad, laugh and love button to push...…...or don't push anything.

I don't like the word "fora" for plural for forums.
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The button itself is fine for me, but the added line between posts saying who liked the post is awkward. I've never seen that in other forum layouts before. Usually it's just that simple "thanked 8 times" line up in the join-date corner and that's it, if people wanted they could "mouse-over" that line to see the list of people who clicked the like button.
You are absolutely correct.

Here is a ridiculous example that I just saw:
The Following User Says Thank You to REDCART For This Useful Post:
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The Administrator or Moderator is contributing to the mess!
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You are absolutely correct.

Here is a ridiculous example that I just saw:
The Following User Says Thank You to REDCART For This Useful Post:
TOTV Team


The Administrator or Moderator is contributing to the mess!
Agree. I expect the "TOTV Specialist" to thank someone any time now.
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How about a ‘thanks but no thanks’ button?
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The button itself is fine for me, but the added line between posts saying who liked the post is awkward. I've never seen that in other forum layouts before. Usually it's just that simple "thanked 8 times" line up in the join-date corner and that's it, if people wanted they could "mouse-over" that line to see the list of people who clicked the like button.
That is exactly the point I was trying to make in my OP.
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I don't see a "THANKS" button on the new version. That is an improvement over the old version.
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