I like (liked?) this idea. I like a lot of posts, but apparently not enough to ever run out. I’d be more than willing to give some of mine to the folks who constantly run out. I’ve followed the discussion, and I still don’t understand why “likes” seem to be treated like wages here. I can see limiting them for newbies, but for members and regulars? What’s the point? It’s not like we’re going to go all weird and start liking trolley posts.
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And especially when you consider that the number of threads/posts one has to read to move up the pecking order is manyfold more times than the increase in likes available offered as a reward for that commitment. In other words: the percentage increase goes DOWN the more involved you are on this forum. That’s dumb.
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I’m not wuh… Wuh… Wuh… Wuh… Weird.
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So far there is no answer I’ve seen other than that you can raise your trust level (and hit it less often). But it does give the opportunity for artistic expression, so there’s that.
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This is a games thread
#NOT YOUR PERSONAL META-SOAPBOX
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I would like that, but 
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Great. Make me question my gender identity, why don’t you.
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Wait wait wait just a cotton’ pickin’ minute, we did do something about this!
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Early 2015: likes per day was increased to 100
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May 2015: Trust level 2, 3 and 4 got daily like increases of 1.5×, 2×, and 3×
So what you’re saying is that those were not enough…
I think this is a very good idea, would barely be naggy at all… @eviltrout can you add this to your list for next week? When you have 5 likes remaining for the day, pop this dialog on like.
@chgoliz I checked and you are a regular (trust level 3) so I think it’s fine to increase tl3 likes per day multiplier from 2× to 3× … I am much more comfortable with changing likes per trust level since the people at that level definitely earned the ability, versus a blanket increase for all users which is way more risky.
I went ahead and made that change, and it should take effect for all tl3 “regular” users in the next 24 hours cc: @beschizza @Falcor
Also – there is a longer term discussion we should have here about potentially promoting some avid, trusted community members to trust level 4. Discourse is predicated on the idea that the community should be trusted to help govern itself, at least partially. This is a big jump in abilities (edit all posts, recategorize, split, merge, pin, etc) so it’s something that @beschizza and @falcor and the rest of the BB staff would have to be on board with, and the community should be also be consulted so they are OK with the people chosen to be TL4, which is always a manual promotion.
I should create a new topic for this… but I wanted to mention it now since it is related.
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Why have a limit at all?
I see you’ve said this elsewhere - seems to come up in other Discourse forums - I just don’t agree.
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Aaaaaaand it’s still true. I am definitely sympathetic to the argument that a person who reads 1,000 replies per day genuinely needs more likes than a person who only reads 100.
A system where you get more likes as you read stuff is interesting, but I think would be really hard for people to understand, and for us to reason about.
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Why would that be hard to understand? I think a percentage would be perfectly intuitive. (At least for those that find pie charts useless.)
I, for one, will wholeheartedly welcome our new Trust Level 4 overlords!
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- Fun will be had
- By all
- Forever
- A failure to have fun, at any point, for any duration, is grounds for immediate ban-hammering.
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“I’m not a punisher… I’m a fun-isher”
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FWIW, I’ve suggested before that maybe a TL3.5 could work: more trust, but not quite at the true administrative level.
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I will like this in about 4 minutes or so! 
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I wish I could transfer my unused likes to other mutants. I’ve yet to reach my daily limit. Sometimes I feel like the Montgomery Brewster of likes.
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Be nicer and like more things, damn it!!!
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