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Title: Can Forums get a like/dislike button like most social media sites?
Post by: RetroCheats on October 10, 2020, 01:27:59 PM
For some posts/threads I don't have much to say. Feels spammy just to say "nice" or "cool"... but if there was a like button, people here would know if I liked a post.

ZeldaUniverse had this feature for a while, so I'm sure it can be done.. just not sure how easy it would be to implement.
Title: Re: Can Forums get a like/dislike button like most social media sites?
Post by: Zeo on October 10, 2020, 04:50:31 PM
i was looking into that actually.  We did have a reputation feature back on VB that functioned simliarlly,

Right now I've still in the battle with the insurance company to ge the pills i need to actually be abel to sleep at night (I;m normally a day time sleeper.)  So I;ve put what effort i can into gettin gthe site back up, and then getting the home page re-done so we cn relaunch properly>

But so far, as far as the forum upgrades go, you have the only 2 requests in.  this would probably be easier then the arcade at any rate.
Title: Re: Can Forums get a like/dislike button like most social media sites?
Post by: Rowan on October 16, 2020, 06:11:34 AM
I think SMF has a reputation system by default, I just never turned it on because people get butthurt about popularity being higher with other members, easily. After the debacle with Lady Venom, I definitely wasn't keen on dealing with it, again.
Title: Re: Can Forums get a like/dislike button like most social media sites?
Post by: Zeo on October 16, 2020, 10:32:30 AM
reputation is different then like.  there should be a thanks mod, that only allows for positive interactions, I'll take a look at it, right now, I've been swamped with work, now I;m swamped with cleaning
Title: Re: Can Forums get a like/dislike button like most social media sites?
Post by: RetroCheats on October 17, 2020, 12:48:54 AM
I'm not thinking of a rep system.. there shouldn't be a reward for getting likes. The main purpose should just to cut down on spam.
Title: Re: Can Forums get a like/dislike button like most social media sites?
Post by: Zeo on October 19, 2020, 09:12:58 AM
Actually since I set the new verification system, with the answers being common knowledge rather the answer in the question haven't had a single damn  bot....