New Like Button on AFF posts

[Bundy Bear]

Since Admin locked the thread about the new feature on AFF with inclusion of the like button I am still wondering what the point of it is.

 

[Princess Fiona]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Maybe there's going to be points awarded the same as Milepoint??

 

[anat0l]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Maybe there's going to be points awarded the same as Milepoint??

If so, there might be more than a few people who will be applying for "recognition of previous board karma"

 

[NM]

The main benefit is to help you locate the interesting posts in a long thread. You can essentially jump directly to the posts with "Likes", perhaps helping to save some time and effort in trolling through a long thread.

 

[anat0l]

Seems that 'Likes' don't move with posts (e.g. where NM was rearranging things).

You can also retract 'Likes'....

 

[admin]

Seems that 'Likes' don't move with posts (e.g. where NM was rearranging things).

Well spotted! When posts are moved (by a mod) to a different thread, it seems that the old thread is still credited with the 'Likes'.

Looks like a bug to me. Will investigate

 

[Bundy Bear]

Well spotted! When posts are moved (by a mod) to a different thread, it seems that the old thread is still credited with the 'Likes'.

Looks like a bug to me. Will investigate

It showed as 3 likes in the notifications box but they didn't go anywhere.

Back to the drawing board eh.

 

[samh004]

Not keen on the heart displayed when there is a "like"… also don’t care much for the share button, hope that can be turned off.

 

[medhead]

Wow I didn't even notice the like buttons neither like 1.0 nor like 2.0 (until now that is)

 

[kpc]

I'm happy...just got notification that someone "liked" one of my post:mrgreen:

 

[JohnK]

Since Admin locked the thread about the new feature on AFF with inclusion of the like button I am still wondering what the point of it is.

I cannot see the point either. Did the "like" feature originate on facebook?

 

[anat0l]

I cannot see the point either. Did the "like" feature originate on facebook?

I think Facebook was one of the first to introduce such a feature. Certainly, it was the medium where I first heard of the feature.

 

[samh004]

I cannot see the point either. Did the "like" feature originate on facebook?

Reaction to MP no doubt, but there’s got to be a better way of recognising a really useful post than quoting it and saying so, and that’s what a "like" is good for.

 

[admin]

Reaction to MP no doubt, but there’s got to be a better way of recognising a really useful post than quoting it and saying so, and that’s what a "like" is good for.

No, nothing to do with MP.

The "Like" function is included in the just-released upgrade of vbseo, which we have been using for many years. The functionality was announced back in August last year ( The "Likes Tree", finding a forum's most useful content will change forever.... - vBulletin SEO Forums) and has been in development/testing since then.

 

[Oneworldplus2]

Maybe instead of a "heart shape", a thumbs up would be better, like FB???

 

[yo yo ma]

Maybe instead of a "heart shape", a thumbs up would be better, like FB???

Or a red arrow / green arrow like is used in the "comments" section of the daily mail?

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