Ok, so I’ve been branded as a bad forum poster…not a problem.
Strange coincidence this happens right after recent accusations of biased selective moderation in these forums.
Think I’ve had enough of this forum anyway…
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Likes are only a part of the trust level. A big part of the higher trust levels is forum participation (visiting the forum, visiting threads, reading threads, posting in different threads).
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Yep. Heavy participation is important for trust levels. For null monkeys, just think of it as paps for forums lol
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Just because there are tools doesn’t mean you have to make use of them. I’m guessing you want to go to default as it’s possibly easier to maintain when they update.
Having a limit is kind of pointless, it’s likely to hide things rather than tell you things. But then like and dislike systems are not much more than gimmicks. You can get information about what people like, you can also get a lot of meaningless information and possibly even misleading.
So your intention is to reduce the amount of likes so that people would use those likes on what they consider more important and in doing so make the like system more useful with its feed-back.
I think you would be better off just starting a thread on a specific topic and asking for feed-back, of course with that you can’t always guarantee the quality of the feed-back. But you can’t with the like system either.
Not a feature I would use.
Seriously, great for young kids, but I find it hard to believe that adults would care about them.
So experimenting in-game and now on the forums.
But anyway, that’s my feed-back unless anything else crops up.
Thanks for the detailed feedback, it is appreciated. We’ll see how things go for a bit and I’ll make tweaks as needed.
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yeah, as I said in LAGL II… I personally have no real problem with a cap, but the initial cap the past few hours was very, very low!
That said, I’ll try to be use my likes more sparingly.
Could we have a little indicator up at the top right (or in our profiles/activity summary/something) that shows 5 / 24 likes remaining today or something? Thanks!
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I’ve just tweaked the cap to be a bit more forgiving. Base number is now 20 and it goes up from there with trust. If people still feel they can’t like all those posts that really deserve it after feeling it out for a couple days at this level I can increase it again.
An indicator would be great, I’ll see if there’s anything in the system for that.
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See defining this is going to be the trickiest part I feel.
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Great.
Oh, one last thing for now:
If we like a post by accident or just find posts more deserving of our limited likes a few minutes later, can we go back and “unlike” the first post and get that like back if we’ve hit cap, say? or will we still not be able to “move” that like to another post at that point?
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We’re not going to define that for you, that’s up to the individual. But having a cap just means that someone can’t ‘like’ every post they see and may need to think about those they feel deserve it most.
If we like a post by accident or just find posts more deserving of our limited likes a few minutes later, can we go back and “unlike” the first post and get that like back if we’ve hit cap, say? or will we still not be able to “move” that like to another post at that point?
I’m pretty sure you can remove it and put it on a new post. That said I’m hoping to find a spot where it doesn’t feel like you’re having to constantly think about this.
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Likes lead to handholding… You know what handholding leads to…
Great, thanks for all the question answering for us!
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Lol when I liked your reply
Incidently, I did mean define myself, lol.
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At the moment people on occasions like witty one liners because they find them funny or clever. Which is an example of poor feed-back.
Whereas a like for an idea that you like can be good feed-back.
The problem of course especially with a general forum for such a system to give good feed-back it requires people to be honest with the distribution of their likes.
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But I dont come here specifically to provide CCP with feedback.
Thats not the definition of a forum.
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To be fair the restriction of likes/thanks/rep is fairly common on forums across the internet.
The unofficial bittervet forums (failheap) has had a similar system in place for donkey’s years.
I know, I doubt many people do in a general forum.
I don’t think general forums are particularly good places for collecting data, unless it’s in the form of a thread with a specific question being asked.
Oops looks like yours was the last Like I had to give.
Likes aren’t good or bad feedback. They’re just feedback. In the simplest way possible, an acknowledgement that you ‘like’ what they posted. Don’t try to define or measure it any more than that.
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