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Originally Posted by Maru
And all other likes systems really
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To be fair, as much as "likes" systems become a popularity contest, they become a whole new beast when you allow "downvotes" as well as likes / upvotes. My own forum had a full up/down system at first but people used it to get at each other, so we made it a simple upvotes system... Which was sort of abused too... So eventually we just made it an "agree with this" sort of like Facebook likes. You could agree with a post and the post had a box at the bottom that showed which members had "agreed" with the post... Alongside a ban on posts that were just to say "here here", "I agree with this", etc.
Of course even that had issues when you had someone saying something blatantly designed to be insulting, then 10 others in the "agree" box
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