Major Overhaul of the Likes System and an OOPS
I find that I'm really not liking the missing likes. It's the feedback that makes the forum feel alive. When I post, I don't know if anyone ever saw it or read it. It's very discouraging. I find myself not being interested in the forum anymore.
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Piping Abe
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Great point Ron. I do agree with others that it is more about actually interacting through our replies however. But I think your point is also very valid and I agree with you a lot.
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For whatever it’s worth, I read everyone’s posts
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MikeDennison
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Me too. If I open up a thread, I actually read the posts. Don't comment often because I have nothing meaningful to say. But I read em!
"I realized I had the gift of seeming to know more than I actually did." -A.J. Cronin-
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MikeDennison
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I'm reading your stuff, sir.
"I realized I had the gift of seeming to know more than I actually did." -A.J. Cronin-
It must be nice to have ample free time to waste just skylarking about. I wouldn't know.
I am looking at you, Plinsc.
In all seriousness, though, what the lack of likes does is make me reread my own posts less. I rather like that. I do not need to read what I already said an hour ago, yesterday, or two days ago, every time someone likes it.
If a thread is marked as having new material, I click it and engage. I love those green checkmarks. The red X, not so much.
As someone who churns out content for a living, and, let me tell you, an artist never has any control of how his audience will receive his efforts, I am generally indifferent to likes. I found it disconcerting in the beginning but I don't really come to PSF for affirmation. I am a codger. I generally go through life not caring what other people think. I know you are shocked to learn this.
Grab the smelling salts.
PSF is social media, yes, but it is not Facebook.
As long as I don't get kicked off for talking about dandruff and Slavic mail-order brides, it makes no difference to me what the like policy is. I come for the company.
-- The Rhinestone Dandy.
It's like retraining your brain to just go with the flow. 10 years ago there was no such thing as likes on forums but they ran just fine. Think of of PSF as old fashioned, seems fitting for a pipe forum.
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