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[Mad_Man_Moon]

Hi!

EXCLAMATION

Anyway, hello.
I am not making a request, far from it, more a mention of a nice piece of bbcode that I saw utilised on a board I used to frequent called Bowlie.

Before facebook became the site duJour, there was this functionality to 'like' a post that someone would put on to the site.
I rather like this aesthetic, because there a (too numerous to count) ... there are lots of posts on here, that I wish it to get back to the creator of which that I appreciate their output ... but I don't particularly want to gush, nor do I want to disrupt threads with a quote and a "hehe".

Just thought I'd float this one as a possible integration in future updates to the forum, because it's good to appreciate other's fine words ...

I'm getting slight deja vu, so I might have suggested this before.
Sorry, if that's the case.

M_M_M

[JensAltmann]

If there's a "like" button, there should also be a "no like" button.

Didn't BC already try something similar once with the reputation function? Which, thanks to a bunch of trolls being active here at the time, backfired horribly.

[Mad_Man_Moon]

actually, that's where it stems from.
you see, bowlie, too, suffered from the reputation system ... so ... rather than do away with it, I think they muted it down to the fact that you could only 'like' something ... because 'not liking' had the propensity to enflame people (let's take a look at the multiple threads ongoing in the news section for how reactionary people can be ;-))

they might've actually removed it completely, not sure, and replaced it with a 'comment' functionality ... whereby you could leave a comment for people to then read in their account screen ...
this was good, and unmonitored unless a severe case of insultation was actually committed ...

overall, I like 'like' ... 'not like' ... well ... we've seen the thin skinnedness of our population (new and old) this week, huh?

[JensAltmann]

let's take a look at the multiple threads ongoing in the news section for how reactionary people can be ;-)

I'd rather not, for exactly the reason. I expect my ignore list would grow exponentially if I checked that section out.

[Mad_Man_Moon]

it is optional, it can be turned on and off ...