Originally Posted by
HansGolden
Whichever has the most likes.
The bottom line for me is that the positive feedback via a like mechanism is:
- Easier to do than +1, thus likely to be utilized more often (good for positive feedback)
- Empirically takes far less space, thus creates less clutter (good for readability)
- Is more likely to be used because it doesn't create clutter (good for positive feedback)
- More positive feedback results in more quality content
I might buy into everything you've mentioned, except I disagree that whichever response has the most likes means it's a correct answer. It could be wrong & if you have folk who don't know any better they'd like it blindly. I actually saw that happen in MP a few times (people posting entirely wrong information & people liking the posts
), which is one reason I don't really pay much attention to like.
I'm not set in stone one way or the other on this issue. But I think like supporters are being naive if they think having like will eliminate plus +1s entirely.
Cheers.