REPUTATION OR LIKE SYSTEM

[Chippiewill]

Can someone explain to me how a like system would get used more than a rep system when over half the people want a rep system to stay in the first place?

It's more prominently displayed, faster to use and typically isn't rate limited. It is currently employed on facepunch and virtually every post gets rated in some manner.

[wixard]

okay, you need to cut this 'reward' system crap. rep is not a reward, i don't think twice about getting rep

if we had a like system, i'd read a post and i'd more than often press like if i liked it. with rep, i sometimes forget it's even there and so i hardly ever rep anyone. with the like system a lot more people would be getting likes on their posts, making them 'feel better' and imo people would start to post more because they like getting their egos massaged.

[scottish]

people aren't going to post more because you like their posts, same as if you get repped you don't care typically and sure as hell aren't going to start posting a lot more because of the rep

comparing a community like facepunch (with nearly 38k active members and consistently 1.5k+ members online) to habbox is stupid, so don't even use the argument "oh communities with 30x our userbase do it so should we!1!"

it's useless, you may now close the thread and forget all about this idea.

[wixard]

people aren't going to post more because you like their posts, same as if you get repped you don't care typically and sure as hell aren't going to start posting a lot more because of the rep

comparing a community like facepunch (with nearly 38k active members and consistently 1.5k+ members online) to habbox is stupid, so don't even use the argument "oh communities with 30x our userbase do it so should we!1!"

it's useless, you may now close the thread and forget all about this idea.

i'll bet you anything they would. it's not like rep though, because it's not often someone gets repped and many people don't bother because instead of rep being just one click away it's like 3, and you have to enter a comment. we are a generation that has become increasingly lazy and easily distracted and a like button will just make things WAY SIMPLER. you just click it and it appears, why are people so eager to keep rep? a like system would be so much more beneficial to the forum which is slowly dying, at least let us go out with some fun instead of being so god damn old fashioned and boring as always

[Chippiewill]

comparing a community like facepunch (with nearly 38k active members and consistently 1.5k+ members online) to habbox is stupid, so don't even use the argument "oh communities with 30x our userbase do it so should we!1!"

I wasn't saying we should because they do. I was saying that a like system gets used more than a rep system for the reasons listed and then provided an example of somewhere it gets used a lot. Heck, I rarely browse facepunch but I still use their like system more than our rep system.

[scottish]

I wasn't saying we should because they do. I was saying that a like system gets used more than a rep system for the reasons listed and then provided an example of somewhere it gets used a lot. Heck, I rarely browse facepunch but I still use their like system more than our rep system.

You're saying that a community with active members some 30 times what we have, has an active like system..

Then change rep to make it easier if people are that lazy, make it a thumbs up or down button (if you really think people are too lazy to click the button then click good/bad), make it so rep doesn't need a comment but it's allowed one.

[Kardan]

i'll bet you anything they would. it's not like rep though, because it's not often someone gets repped and many people don't bother because instead of rep being just one click away it's like 3, and you have to enter a comment. we are a generation that has become increasingly lazy and easily distracted and a like button will just make things WAY SIMPLER. you just click it and it appears, why are people so eager to keep rep? a like system would be so much more beneficial to the forum which is slowly dying, at least let us go out with some fun instead of being so god damn old fashioned and boring as always

Rep is 2 clicks and you don't need a comment - just tried that out on you So are we saying a like system would be more popular because you save 1 click?

In that case, can we not change the 'Give rep' button into a '+rep', '-rep' button

[AgnesIO]

Can someone explain to me how a like system would get used more than a rep system when over half the people want a rep system to stay in the first place?

It wouldn't.

[Chippiewill]

In that case, can we not change the 'Give rep' button into a '+rep', '-rep' button

Because that's literally what the like system is.

[FlyingJesus]

No we shouldn't for the reasons Kyle said!!

Perhaps not showing -reps then but -rep should at least take away from the number of +reps displayed on a post. Currently if a post has 2 +reps it'll look like it's a popular opinion even if 50 people -rep it

It's more prominently displayed, faster to use and typically isn't rate limited. It is currently employed on facepunch and virtually every post gets rated in some manner.

So what you're saying is that it's useless and meaningless therefore we should use it cool

a like system would be so much more beneficial to the forum

Howwwwwwww this has still not been explained it's just repetitions of "it's great honest" with just a bunch of conjecture about how people might possibly use it more, which doesn't outweigh how pointless it is