Thumb Up Button with Counter for posts

[Stone Message]

I can imagine that this suggestion would take a lot of effort but we went to the moon in the last century after all...

Please could there be a button next to each post that represents a "Thumbs Up" or "Like" and next to it a counter to show how many people had pressed that button. There are a lot of posts that I would really like to support but I just do not have the time to write a sentence for each.

I do not believe that we need a "Dislike" button as such but would not object to it at all. My rationale is that most objections do need to be explained - otherwise you do not know if the objector is dead against something or just dislikes one tiny facet.

Peter

 

[oldie]

Thumbs up to what Peter suggests.  ;D

Richard UK

 

[charley1968]

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[charley1968]

Thumbs up for your suggestion, Peter.

 

[AlexThePalex]

Dislike, useless fluff. People can deduct your approval from your comments anyway.

 

[Stephen B]

[size=14pt]Sorry Peter, thumbs down.

You either have an opinion or a contributive statement or not. Also not all posts need to be debated, which this suggested voting system implies.

In many ways this thread reiterates why I do not like +1.  [eek]

http://festoolownersgroup.com/forum-rules-guidelines-suggestions/let-us-all-ban-1/msg334314/#msg334314

 

[Stone Message]

Dislike, useless fluff. People can deduct your approval from your comments anyway.

Yes, but you then need to type something to express your approval. I am pretty busy these days and would like to show my support to people's points of view but cannot write a sentence every single time. I think that showing support like this will encourage some of the less frequent contributors to do more and the FOG as a whole will benefit in the process.

Peter

 

[oldie]

(Gulp)  +1 to what Peter just posted.  [scared]
But, this post does demonstrate potential advantage, to some, of Peter's proposal. 

Richard UK
(edit: added couple of words.)

 

[AlexThePalex]

Yes, but you then need to type something to express your approval. I am pretty busy these days and would like to show my support to people's points of view but cannot write a sentence every single time. I think that showing support like this will encourage some of the less frequent contributors to do more and the FOG as a whole will benefit in the process.

It is a forum but you can't be bothered to type your response? Seriously, that is not cool.

When you have a conversation with somebody, do you keep your mouth shut and just use your thumbs?

You're promoting a type of participation I can not find useful, and is in fact detrimental because it waters down the content.

You do realise that like buttons on forums open up a popularity contest, do you? Wanna turns this forum into a high school event?

 

[Stone Message]

Yes, but you then need to type something to express your approval. I am pretty busy these days and would like to show my support to people's points of view but cannot write a sentence every single time. I think that showing support like this will encourage some of the less frequent contributors to do more and the FOG as a whole will benefit in the process.

It is a forum but you can't be bothered to type your response? Seriously, that is not cool.
You know that is not true - I gave my reason so please do not misinterpret what I said.

When you have a conversation with somebody, do you keep your mouth shut and just use your thumbs?
Reading a post is not having a conversation.

You're promoting a type of participation I can not find useful, and is in fact detrimental because it waters down the content.
I think that it might add to things.

You do realise that like buttons on forums open up a popularity contest, do you?
I understand what you mean and would not want that.

Wanna turns this forum into a high school event?
It seems to work elsewhere.

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[peter halle]

Eons ago something similar was tried here and it turned out to be not such a good idea at that time.  Whether or not it would work better this time would be one question.  Another question would be whether or not there is a standard included module or function to perform this or would it require custom programming. 

I don't have the answers to any of these.

Peter

 

[windmill man]

Got to agree with Alex

The forum is about conversation and contribution not clicking buttons for the purpose of self aggrandizement or other motives . What's next  "friend buttons"

There is already too much bragging and box opening threads on here already!

So where is the dislike button when you need it !

John

 

[JayStPeter]

I'm on another forum, outside of woodworking, that has something like this.  You click on a little icon and it adds to the other guys "reputation".  Then guys go around trying to collect "reps".  Every time someone helps someone they expect to be rewarded with reps.  Every time a newbie comes along, the whole reps scheme has to be explained.  When I ask a question, I have to give reps to anyone that answers, no matter how stupid the answer  [tongue].  In all honesty, I'd rather thank everyone and go over what I actually did regarding my question than have to go post-by-post and "rep-up" everyone.  The admins also had to implement some sort of scheme to prevent one person from repping-up another too often.  You have to spread your reps to others before you can give the same guy reps again, so then you have to post that you would give reps, but you're locked out.
That all said, it does encourage participation in threads that are often considered "ugh, not another newbie asking about that" type of threads.  But, I think it also adds noise to a significant percentage of threads.

 

[erock]

I don't think adding a "LIKE" or "DISLIKE" button would hurt the forum.

You can click it or not.  Your call.    Think about it.  We have a "SEARCH" button that seems to get very little use.

How may times do we see the "Which sander for me" threads?      [tongue]

So what's one or two more buttons?    I'm sure they would hardly get used.

Heck, if anything, let's make the "SEARCH" button BIGGER!!! 

Eric

 

[Stone Message]

I'm on another forum, outside of woodworking, that has something like this.  You click on a little icon and it adds to the other guys "reputation".  Then guys go around trying to collect "reps".  Every time someone helps someone they expect to be rewarded with reps.  Every time a newbie comes along, the whole reps scheme has to be explained.  When I ask a question, I have to give reps to anyone that answers, no matter how stupid the answer  [tongue].  In all honesty, I'd rather thank everyone and go over what I actually did regarding my question than have to go post-by-post and "rep-up" everyone.  The admins also had to implement some sort of scheme to prevent one person from repping-up another too often.  You have to spread your reps to others before you can give the same guy reps again, so then you have to post that you would give reps, but you're locked out.
That all said, it does encourage participation in threads that are often considered "ugh, not another newbie asking about that" type of threads.  But, I think it also adds noise to a significant percentage of threads.

I think that anything that singles out a person or a group of people is wrong and would not wish the FOG to go that way. To avoid that the tally of likes should not be recorded as part of a FOGger's profile.

Peter

 

[JayStPeter]

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I think that anything that singles out a person or a group of people is wrong and would not wish the FOG to go that way. To avoid that the tally of likes should not be recorded as part of a FOGger's profile.

Peter

Yeah, but I think anything like that will lead to people looking to be "validated" by getting their posts liked.  I would feel completely OBLIGATED to like peoples posts that responded to my threads to make sure they would be willing to help me again sometime.  This is already a pretty positive and helpful place, I don't see the need necessarily.  I have occasionally been known to be wrong though (very rarely, but occasionally  [big grin])

 

[Stone Message]

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I think that anything that singles out a person or a group of people is wrong and would not wish the FOG to go that way. To avoid that the tally of likes should not be recorded as part of a FOGger's profile.

Peter

Yeah, but I think anything like that will lead to people looking to be "validated" by getting their posts liked.  I would feel completely OBLIGATED to like peoples posts that responded to my threads to make sure they would be willing to help me again sometime.  This is already a pretty positive and helpful place, I don't see the need necessarily.  I have occasionally been known to be wrong though (very rarely, but occasionally  [big grin])

Hi Jay,

I see exactly what you mean and that would be a bad thing.

The number of times that a thread is visited is tracked and shown on the thread list page. Sometimes the ratio of visits to comments is over 30 to 1 and so there are a lot of people that are viewing without making any form of contribution. This might encourage a bit more participation.

I am pretty relaxed about the subject and think that this type of feedback through "Likes" might be useful although any form of ranking by numbers of likes would be a tragedy for a forum like this.

Peter

 

[woodguy7]

I think that should be left where it belongs, at Facebook.  If you don't have the time to comment or don't want to just move on.

 

[fatroman]

I think that should be left where it belongs, at Facebook.  If you don't have the time to comment or don't want to just move on.

Absolutely agree. There's too much of the high school popularity contest nonsense around here as it is.

Comments offer solutions to problems. Like buttons are just another road to self-puffery.

 

[bkharman]

When you have a conversation with somebody, do you keep your mouth shut and just use your thumbs?

Like Peter said, this isn't about a conversation.  I give my kids the "thumbs up" all the time... when they are skiing, gymnastics, make cool sh-tuff out of Legos... it is a nice pat on the back or attaboy.

Some people get bent out of shape too much on this forum about minor things.  Some are probably stress bombs waiting to explode and this forum is their way to do that.  Ease off man, it is just a request (that you obviously feel passionate about).

Did people forget that there is this emoticon??  [thumbs up]

Cheers.  Bryan.