mjr4077au wrote:Using the Duke4 forum for example, you can give someone's post a one-up/kudos which I often do when I want to show appreciation for someone's response without making noise and/or possibly bumping a thread.
Does phpBB have any plug-in that's similar and if so could it be a consideration for deployment during the next forum maintenance window?
A thumbs up does not say
much. You see this with Instagram. And imagine bad news: A famous actor or family has died. What can you do, if the option is only a like?
Ofcourse, you want to
support such people, but a like can also be interpreted wildly different in that case - It could also mean you are happy that this person passed away, for instance.
That's one of the main pitfalls of a
like system - It forfeits nuance for a simple
credibility rating.
As Graf mentions, on DW it is very apparent that controversy sells likes. And i like to iterate on it: that long lasting vets get likes a lot quicker, even when what theysay is the exact same thing anyone else would say - Even more, when you get 15, you also get a
heart. as a form of highlighting.
Suppose i found an absolute one of a kind release and i post it versus a long lasting vet doing the same thing. I get 8 likes, the vet gets 25, because its a
common name that posted it. What the like system does, is making posts by common names be near-automatically be of more importance than Joe Sixpack who discovers and posts the same things.
I have to admit that i am guilty of giving likes away as well for zero purpose, but i don't think it benefits people - If it was only the initial purpose, of highlighting an quality post, then yes.
But as with every like system, it gets misused to favorite specific users. And that's just not cool.
If anything else, i would want whatever i contribute be appreciated by the people for who it has a purpose for and actually thank me in private or something to that effect. One thank you is far more valuable than 15 likes that give you a heart detailing that what you just wrote is
popular.
Graf Zahl wrote:I already noticed this on Doomworld where it's particularly the controversial discussions that get the most likes.
Obviously. Guess who get them.
That's not to say that their comments aren't valuable - Its just that it becomes a common theme to see whenever such user makes a post. You can set your watch on it.
The worst part is that those likes aren't retracted when its found out that the controversy or the tone setting of such a user was out of line. And its not like they follow through with the initial response, either - Sooner than later they leave the thread when they made their
point, whatever that is supposed to be.
Irrational anger damages people who at best you know from an avatar. But behind that avatar is an actual person with actual thoughts and actual feelings. I feel that this often gets missed these days, not just with Doom in general... Alright enough pedantry.
EDIT: A few hours later added some additional clarity in.
[quote="mjr4077au"]Using the Duke4 forum for example, you can give someone's post a one-up/kudos which I often do when I want to show appreciation for someone's response without making noise and/or possibly bumping a thread.
Does phpBB have any plug-in that's similar and if so could it be a consideration for deployment during the next forum maintenance window?[/quote]
A thumbs up does not say [i]much[/i]. You see this with Instagram. And imagine bad news: A famous actor or family has died. What can you do, if the option is only a like?
Ofcourse, you want to [i]support[/i] such people, but a like can also be interpreted wildly different in that case - It could also mean you are happy that this person passed away, for instance.
That's one of the main pitfalls of a [i]like[/i] system - It forfeits nuance for a simple [i]credibility[/i] rating.
As Graf mentions, on DW it is very apparent that controversy sells likes. And i like to iterate on it: that long lasting vets get likes a lot quicker, even when what theysay is the exact same thing anyone else would say - Even more, when you get 15, you also get a [i]heart.[/i] as a form of highlighting.
Suppose i found an absolute one of a kind release and i post it versus a long lasting vet doing the same thing. I get 8 likes, the vet gets 25, because its a [i]common name[/i] that posted it. What the like system does, is making posts by common names be near-automatically be of more importance than Joe Sixpack who discovers and posts the same things.
I have to admit that i am guilty of giving likes away as well for zero purpose, but i don't think it benefits people - If it was only the initial purpose, of highlighting an quality post, then yes.
But as with every like system, it gets misused to favorite specific users. And that's just not cool.
If anything else, i would want whatever i contribute be appreciated by the people for who it has a purpose for and actually thank me in private or something to that effect. One thank you is far more valuable than 15 likes that give you a heart detailing that what you just wrote is [i]popular.[/i]
[quote="Graf Zahl"]I already noticed this on Doomworld where it's particularly the controversial discussions that get the most likes.[/quote]
Obviously. Guess who get them. :foxnews: :mrgreen:
That's not to say that their comments aren't valuable - Its just that it becomes a common theme to see whenever such user makes a post. You can set your watch on it.
The worst part is that those likes aren't retracted when its found out that the controversy or the tone setting of such a user was out of line. And its not like they follow through with the initial response, either - Sooner than later they leave the thread when they made their [i]point[/i], whatever that is supposed to be.
Irrational anger damages people who at best you know from an avatar. But behind that avatar is an actual person with actual thoughts and actual feelings. I feel that this often gets missed these days, not just with Doom in general... Alright enough pedantry. :)
EDIT: A few hours later added some additional clarity in.