May We Please Have a "Like" Button?

[TheOfficialBren]

Only if we can have a dislike button too.

+***!!!

Facebook use to have this feature. They got too warm and fuzzy and eliminated it, much to the chagrin of many a Facebooker. If you have a "like" then you need a "dislike." Without both it loses legitimacy, IMO.

I do like the idea of implementing this, though.

[rmccool]

I'm sorry but I don't know of any vBulletin plug in or add-on that has a 'like' button.

Steve, I've no experience with configuring or administering vBulletin, but this might help if it's a feature that you decide to implement:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...ht=like+button

[unixken]

Steve, I've no experience with configuring or administering vBulletin, but this might help if it's a feature that you decide to implement:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...ht=like+button

In that link...
"users thank/like each others posts, which can give them access to attachements, post content etc, as well as encourage the thanked person to post more great content."

I read this to say I can't access attachments (uploaded pics perhaps?) or post anything, unless I "like" or "thank"? That's either a very poorly written description, or an add-on that I would instantly (and repeatedly) "dislike" and "not thank".

[artificer]

+***!!!

Facebook use to have this feature. They got too warm and fuzzy and eliminated it, much to the chagrin of many a Facebooker. If you have a "like" then you need a "dislike." Without both it loses legitimacy, IMO.

I do like the idea of implementing this, though.

Facebook is hardly the bastion of manners or reasoned discourse. While there may be certain advantages to a "dislike" button over on FB, hopefully here at XMarks we can follow our mothers' sage advice...

"If you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all"

and just not follow the threads/comments we don't care for. :ootd:


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edit: I missed Kyle's reply to me and didn't want to post over myself.

Sorry about that, hahaha! Sometimes I do discuss a particular statement after "+1ing" it, but often there is nothing else, or more for me to say.

No worries here, it just gets to be an issue (at least for me) when two pages of people start copying you, you trend-setter, you!

[seanachie]

Facebook is hardly the bastion of manners or reasoned discourse. While there may be certain advantages to a "dislike" button over on FB, hopefully here at XMarks we can follow our mothers' sage advice...

"If you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all"

and just not follow the threads/comments we don't care for. :ootd:

I think there is a lot to agree with in this comment. Hopefully kilt wearers are not lemmings and a kilt forum does not need to "follow the pack",mimic features and can be a place for a little more reasoned discourse. The other thing I fear, and I have seen this on other boards, is people will use it for purposes other than the spirit in which it was intended.

[robthehiker]

[CDNSushi]

Speaking from a moderator's perspective, I would absolutely loathe having a "dislike" feature. Have the rabble already forgotten all the threads and posts accusing others of being "thin-skinned" or for whinging when something gets flagged to be actioned by the mods?

Tell me that people WON'T start complaining bitterly when their post gets "disliked" by someone... The mods would be continually policing this. Not something I care to spend my time doing, really.

As for having a "Like" or "***" or "Thanks" button, I'm relatively indifferent at this point. As Steve points out, the limiting factor might be whether or not such an add-on exists for the vBulletin software, but also, whether it can be easily implemented. Before our last major site upgrade, Steve was having a whole slew of technical problems because the previous owner had installed a zillion different mods (that's modifications -- not moderators) and add-ons, some of which did not play nicely with one another, or the forum itself. It was only because we moved to a brand new installation that this all got resolved. So I'm sure Steve is probably not just a little leery about potentially "breaking" the forum by introducing a new mod like this. Not saying it's not possible, but just pointing out that there is a technical side to this, that does cost time and money to implement...

[MNlad]

It's probably the old curmudgeon in me, but I have come to really dislike the "like" feature on Facebook. Every day we are bombarded by companies urging us to "like" them. Security issues?

While I'm as guilty as the next guy of +1ing a comment by another forum member, I try to follow that with an additional comment or observation, even if it is only a weak attempt to add some humor to the conversation. Simply hitting a "like" button seems to add little to the discourse and could turn what might otherwise be an interesting exchange into little more than a popularity contest.

See, I told you I was an old curmudgeon.

[mookien]

I think there is a lot to agree with in this comment. Hopefully kilt wearers are not lemmings and a kilt forum does not need to "follow the pack",mimic features and can be a place for a little more reasoned discourse. The other thing I fear, and I have seen this on other boards, is people will use it for purposes other than the spirit in which it was intended.

Hear, hear! Which, if I understand correctly is British for "***".

[Zardoz]

Speaking from a moderator's perspective, I would absolutely loathe having a "dislike" feature. Have the rabble already forgotten all the threads and posts accusing others of being "thin-skinned" or for whinging when something gets flagged to be actioned by the mods?

Tell me that people WON'T start complaining bitterly when their post gets "disliked" by someone... The mods would be continually policing this. Not something I care to spend my time doing, really.

I know you are right! That's mostly why Facebook got rid of it, folks sent them too many hurt feelings reports. My post about a 'dislike' button was tongue in cheek for the most part.