I don't care if its added I don't click things like that. Its just more work for me. I mean when you say something negative about me and then someone likes your post then I gotta add 2 people to my list.
And how would you know who liked that post ?
This is just another one of the several possible perverse side-effets of such systems IMO, not only people skip reading and might miss some info or the context, but these stealthy mob rule situations
will happen too. Personally if someone disagrees with me or I offended him/her I much prefer to hear that person speak his mind even if it's to tell me I'm an idiot or to hang myself.
We're in an era where people just want to be served fast food solutions and opinions, I know sometimes the threads are too long and the search engine doesn't always find what you need, but we can't deny there's a growing lazyness against reading and participating to real full conversations too, and some'll courageaously only use the vote buttons because it's easier than speaking up and risk confronting people (well, writing)
I might be a grouch with obsolete thinking but I like forums
because they're made for exchange in a human language manner, a normal flow, social media with their popularity/reputation arrangements break this entirely.
(chatrooms/irc are okay too but certainly not for developing any topic, I don't understand the communities that closed their forums to go discord-only, that's terrible)
Rep's fine for trade purposes though.
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EDIT: wanted to add;
- Because the majority likes one post/opinion the most doesn't necessarily make it the best answer/right. What if it's ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow--- yet most readers are directed to it ?
- I find the perspective of "beware what you say/how you behave because theres a permanent cloud of judgement-passing-mob hovering and deciding your value and place in this society" very creepy, it's one way authoritarian societies control people.
Again I might be obsolete but I much prefer societies governed by law/rules and where legitimate enforcers sometimes intervene if things go too far, then most of the tme people deal with each other's humanity by talking like reasonable adults as much as they can.
Maybe limit the feature to the forums where the discussions don't veer too far from the technical.
^ this