GN HQ - Please Please add a like button to posts

Whiff

Easiest way is for posters not to copy down the post the poster posted. I have had to read my own words before I get to what the poster wanted to say about my post . I know what I wrote that's why I wrote it . I hate having my own words quoted back at me especially if someone likes what I wrote. If they liked it or I helped then just say I liked you post. Or if you didn't just say you disagree. But I only write about things I have experienced. I don't talk about things I don't know about.

Isn't part of quoting a post so that your reply makes sense to others too? When I see a post that says " Bunnykins I agree with every word" I can't always (or even often) remember what Bunnykins had to say and sometimes would need to scroll back for pages to find the relevant post.

Bea65
Have you tried using the microphone symbol to type your posts.

I’m not keen on this idea.

Putting ‘like’ after a person’s post sounds a bit teenagery to me.

What is wrong with a simple AGREE button to show you agree with the comment. If anyone wants to add something they can just write another post. I often see posts I simply want to say 'I agree with that' and nothing more. All this nonsense about popularity contests is irrelevant.

Do u have Nextdoor forum on your platform of forums - it’s so so much easier to comment/support ideas and opinions.. really don’t see why this platform is behind the times- as someone with actual physical touch disabilities on keyboards- other media platforms R easier to follow 😊

Absolutely not!

I fear it will descend into a popularity contest or even worse, the opposite.

[Wyllow3] thought maybe GNs would be above the Likey Likey culture 🤔 maybe they are not Real GNs🤔trolls are just pervading a lot of forums- I’ve answered privately to a few GNs who asked/commented on posts so it’s inclusive and another helpful option 🤞

smileys are handy and actually more subtle.

On another board (completely unrelated to GN) it became a "thing" like popularity contest to collect "likes". The end result was people afraid to post because they couldn't collect "likes". Then people started discussing who got lots of "likes"

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Have a like but not a dislike button.

Or, an Agree or disagree.. 🤔

Smileys’ are good- I take your points about others opinions above but it’s clunky and IMO perhaps loses the appeal of the main thread 🤔

Bea65

Am very aware that this has been requested...But, am sure it is relatively easy to add this option....
I'm becoming very irritable at reading posts that quote several posters prior comments .. maybe its the general mood of the moment, but my patience is dwindling to read copious posts..hope I've not offended anyone here

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I wish they would, like most sites but there is strong opposition here, sadly. It would be so nice to be able to at least thank people. Perhaps just put a smiley after the posts ?

Oreo

I second the please please don’t.
All it will achieve is a virtual pile on of likes drowning out the comments.
There are many other ways to show you agree with a comment.

Hear hear.

No thanks. Better to comment on posts giving a different point of view or show how you agree. Like or dislike mean very little.

Easiest way is for posters not to copy down the post the poster posted. I have had to read my own words before I get to what the poster wanted to say about my post . I know what I wrote that's why I wrote it . I hate having my own words quoted back at me especially if someone likes what I wrote. If they liked it or I helped then just say I liked you post. Or if you didn't just say you disagree. But I only write about things I have experienced. I don't talk about things I don't know about.

I second the please please don’t.
All it will achieve is a virtual pile on of likes drowning out the comments.
There are many other ways to show you agree with a comment.

Please please dont.

I think your post will have many GN's nodding their heads. Me, for one. We can put a man on the moon but GN HQ cannot add 'like' buttons etc to posts.