Thanks. I actually read a lot of the past discussion while basically living on the BBS over the last 48 hours.
It’s part of why I generally agree that “unlimited” is the right choice. Since that conversation, we’ve seen a propagation of “likes” to most of the social services as well, most with no cap of any kind.
Hopefully that’s given you a clear sense of how tightly woven this community is. We have each other’s backs.
And because we feel so at home here, we willingly promote this site everywhere, both online and IRL. Raising the like cap especially meant that we felt heard and appreciated, and more of us started to spend more time here, which translates to more click-throughs, more positive reviews in social media, and more outsiders being brought here for the first time.
We are a net revenue stream, not a drain on resources.
I kinda think likes should be weighted, so that if you’re the type who gives likes rarely, with careful consideration, then your “like” should be worth more than a hypothetical “like every post”-er.
I guess the only place that matters currently is in determining which posts get floated up for the “summarize this topic” feature, though…
The fun seems to have been sucked right out of the place since the new order. I guess that’s what they wanted - comment on the article topics and that’s it. Do not deviate. Don’t question the benefactors. The chocolate ration is now 20 grams per week.
I hesitate to bring this up, but you should probably be aware that indiscriminately liking as many posts as possible is one of the behaviors that earned OtherMichael a reputation as a troublemaker.
Heh. He liked one of my year-old posts which consisted of nothing but a video. This video had already been taken down at that time, so he basically liked an empty post.
Man, if we’d only had that intervention I suggested.
Now we can just welcome anyone with anygif… also you are not drinking… fix that.
We get cakes on cakeday already.
ETA plus there a lot of anniversary users to do that to, every day.