I would still remove them. I haven’t seen the sort of catastrophic gamification I saw on other boards, and beyond this thread people seem to be largely ignoring them, but they don’t actually add anything to the discussion either.
Yeah, that is why I think if we do turn on the likes for good, we should say, lets regroup in 6 months or a year to see if anything has changed bad or good.
If likes don’t change anything about the culture here, I don’t care if they are in or not. I just know a few other forum communities where likes are basically currency.
I look forward to the month off to prove that “likes do no good.”
Just when we do the voting, include an option for ‘I don’t care much either way’. Because I suspect the true sentiment runs that direction for some majority.
I look forward to learning absolutely nothing from this exercise and ultimately we collectively go, Fuck it just flip a coin.
You get a like because I wish more people took a stand for apathy.
Without likes, there will be no little heart icons. I feel like that will make the forum seem less loving.
I’m willing to develop a strongly held opinion in one direction or another for whoever the highest bidder is. I will argue this side vociferously and threaten the lives and livelihoods of all who disagree without concern.
Trump got elected on likes!
In the midst of reading the enormous Exalted 3rd Edition ruleset, I can pretty definitively state that Trump rolled a massive success on a Read Intentions of the American electorate and then used the “Hates Brown People (Defining)” Principle on 60-odd million people to roll another huge success for Persuade against them.
I think that is a really hard thing to quantify, as people’s posting habits aren’t going to change overnight… and the number of people I see in the games forum going “Oh, I didn’t know there were likes!” kinda shows that the community isn’t even fully aware of the change yet (which also speaks well to the un-intrusiveness).
But, I am probably in the camp that they really add nothing, so why bother.
I disagree. If you truly don’t care, just don’t vote. Otherwise, pick yea or nay.
As long as we count them as “no” votes!
I think precisely the contrary has been demonstrated over and over, and even supporters have cited the primary harm I see (“liking” instead of posting) as a natural part of them. They just think it’s a good thing. But even if you disagree, I contend they also have demonstrated no particular positive value.
Meaning, “No, I don’t NOT want likes!”
I ‘liked’ this and I will also reply. This is the way I feel. If they’re here and I remember, I’ll occasionally use them. If they are gone I won’t miss them.
I don’t like likes. So I will like anyone who says they dislike liking. Like, is that okay.
See that’s why you also post to tell people why you liked them. Context is everything - got to say, hey you just got an ironic like from scuzz! So they’ll know this wasn’t just any old garden variety like. This means something, dammit.