Feedback on the current Like system...

[nminusyplusm]

As a newer member, I wasn't aware that there had been a limit on the number of likes that could be given. I find myself liking posts as a way to show appreciation for various things. Sometimes, it is helpful information. Other times, it is a decision someone has made that I think is wise. I may also like a clever idea, a show of support from one member to another, or may use my like to acknowledge someone else's appreciation for something I have contributed.

Though I frequently voice my appreciation through a reply, there are times when a like will suffice and a written reply would not contribute anything meaningful to the overall conversation, but might, in fact, distract or detract from it. I am just trying to be a contributing and benefiting member of the community.

I don't see likes as a matter of popularity, but more as an encouragement, both when I give them and when I receive them. I don't really want to have to dole out appreciation as a limited resource, though I have no idea what the previous limit was or whether it was a number that would have any practical effect on my current use of likes. I'm not given to liking everything I see--just to showing concern, support, and appreciation. As people get to know me, they can decide how much value to place on my likes and my posts. That would be true no matter how many likes I had to work with. It almost seems that receiving likes would become more competitive if they were limited in number, since choosing to like something would also be a choice not to spend that like on everyone or anything else.

I have found so much to appreciate here on BYC. People here show an uncommon level of care for one another and willingness to share their experience for the benefit of others. One way or another, I will find a way to express my thankfulness for that. The like button is just one way.

Very well put! I'm newer and wasn't aware of the old system here but I've been on boards where it worked that way. And though I can certainly appreciate how one could see unlimited liking as diminishing a like's overall value, I feel, just as in real life, liking something isn't and shouldn't be a zero sum finite thing or a currency, for me at least. I want to be able to react to something honestly without calculating if I can afford to like it.

 

[3riverschick]

Kinda get the feeling the above poster likes math?

 

[007Sean]

You couldn't be likeable even if you took a bath and got dux. I don't think you have to worry.

This is the only "like" I've given in this thread....why? It really made me laugh....I like that! Thanks BantyChooks

 

[Akrnaf2]

Your not missing anything.

I know!

 

[Akrnaf2]

I find myself feeling sad for people without likes and will often like their post, article, comment, or picture in hopes that they will smile.

Kathy You are a good human being!

 

[igorsMistress]

I don't see that it makes any difference. People can like whatever they want, how does it affect me or you or anyone else?

 

[orrpeople]

Quite honestly, I scroll past the likes, looking for the quotes, because I would rather have a dialogue about what I wrote (or what they wrote)- whether or not they "liked" it.

 

[MageofMist]

I am an awkward potato majority of the time, and sometimes struggle finding things to say, but I did enjoy the ovations during the time that they were still around and read the comments left on them. Either little bits of advice on the matter of the post or a compliment from others, and I left a few ovations too before the change.

I didn't know there was a limit to them and never reached it, as I like to show that, well, I like the post and did lurk quite a bit at first, and still kinda do now. Though I do find myself liking more things than before, and am receiving more likes since the change, some of my posts getting 4-5 likes and I am left wondering how...
I do enjoy them and appreciate them! But I get puzzled at times over them at the same time.

As others have mentioned, it would be neat if there was both a like and ovation system in place, likes being unlimited and the ovations being the same (or similar) to before the change.

 

[N F C]

I don't see that it makes any difference. People can like whatever they want, how does it affect me or you or anyone else?

I agree...if someone wants to 'like' everything they read, how does that affect what YOU do? If you want to limit 'liking' to just particular things, that doesn't affect anyone else. Maybe 10,000 'likes' doesn't mean anything to some, but it could be important to others.

Why try to monitor or limit something that is not harmful to the overall community? This all sounds like a pet peeve type issue. Why change how the system works to accommodate a pet peeve?

 

[Pork Pie]