Add a "Like" feature?

[Anonymous]

This may have been asked/answered but while in the midst of my time-suck binges here I often wish I could just LIKE a post instead of writing a response. While there may be an argument that the world doesn't need my opinion on many topics, in cases especially where I feel someone is genuinely asking for advice and gets bombarded by some wrong thinking people and I see that there is that ONE post that perfectly expresses my (of course right and level headed) feelings - rather than regurgitate the same it would be nice to just add my 'voice' to that post of reason succinctly with an ever growing number of likes from the other brilliants who see things my way....

[Anonymous]

That's what +1 is for.

[Anonymous]

I understand that but that just keeps adding pages and pages to a post OR you are many pages/posts in and can't reference what you're supporting - again - without adding.....

[Anonymous]

Good god no - we don't need that, its not Twitter or Facebook or any of that crap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's what +1 is for.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This may have been asked/answered but while in the midst of my time-suck binges here I often wish I could just LIKE a post instead of writing a response. While there may be an argument that the world doesn't need my opinion on many topics, in cases especially where I feel someone is genuinely asking for advice and gets bombarded by some wrong thinking people and I see that there is that ONE post that perfectly expresses my (of course right and level headed) feelings - rather than regurgitate the same it would be nice to just add my 'voice' to that post of reason succinctly with an ever growing number of likes from the other brilliants who see things my way....

I think it would be great! I often find myself wanting to "like" posts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good god no - we don't need that, its not Twitter or Facebook or any of that crap.

+1,000,000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good god no - we don't need that, its not Twitter or Facebook or any of that crap.

+1,000,000

+1,000,001

[Anonymous]

I would love to have another way, besides +1, to like posts as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would love to have another way, besides +1, to like posts as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love to have another way, besides +1, to like posts as well.

+1 Like. I agree with this. ^^

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love to have another way, besides +1, to like posts as well.

+1 Like. I agree with this. ^^

Agreed!

[Anonymous]

I'd be more in favor of a moderation and karma system like on Slashdot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd be more in favor of a moderation and karma system like on Slashdot.

How does that work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd be more in favor of a moderation and karma system like on Slashdot.

How does that work?

Basically, logged in users get randomly selected to pick from a menu of options like "informative", "insightful", "off-topic" etc. Each selection gives a +1 or a -1 to the comment. Users can set filters so that they only see comments at or above a certain score, and troll comments are quickly buried.

You only get assigned a few points, and, to quote the slashdot FAQ, it's like jury duty - you don't know when you'll get selected and you don't know how long it will last.

See the sections on Moderation and Metamoderation as well as the later section on karma.

https://slashdot.org/faq

The down side is that I don't know how amenable the system Jeff's using would be to the implementation of the code. Might require a whole lotta work.