I’m Kadath Dreamfire and I approve of and endorse liked posts.
I also poo-poo the straw men arguments put forth about how likes might be abused or change the Q23 culture. My experience with other large scale fora indicates those concerns are vastly overblown.
Listen when you’re at the character creation screen you just wanna play. The Mercedes Lackey / Tracy Hickman one read in their youth just bubbles up during those moments. :)
I really feel like I’ve never seen the forum so active*. I don’t think it’s down to the likes, but anyone suggesting that the forum is a deadsville now is on drugs.
*I wasn’t here in the super heyday when all kinds of people still used forums on the daily. So I mean in the last several years or thereabouts, which is about as long as my memory goes now.
Ah but what people really want to know is why do you use “Middleinitial” and then use “Firstletteroflastname” instead of “Lastinitial” or “Finalinitial” ? Perhaps you could go with “Penultimatenameinitial” instead of “Middleinitial”? Its all so confusing!