Originally Posted by
SkiAdcock
Oh good grief. You make it sound as though FTers have been clamoring for this for a decade when FB barely got started back then.
The other - and quite frankly more important thing - is that FTers themselves are split pretty evenly on whether they want like, so your red comment doesn't really apply. We encountered that with the titles issue. A fter saying do something when each time the topic was brought up FTers were equally split on whether they wanted it or not, and that's how the vote went.
As a TB member I'm willing to keep an open mind. As a fter I'm against like for the reasons I outlined earlier in this thread. Besides not wanting to read a gazillion like a one person saying a post has value or is correct doesn't' t make it so.
Ps -the news button is a trial and only available to mods and some long time FTers and TB members. Because of that I'm quite surprised you'd bring it up publicly.
Cheers
Working backwards:
That's what I get for speed reading. I didn't realize the News button was limited. My point was that IB can implement what TB asks for, within reason.
The Thanks feature would just show a count and possibly a truncated list of members taking less than a full line of screen in small font. That's the cost of the feature. The benefit to readers is faster skimming and for evaluating the credibility of the information. A speculative benefit is more high-value posts. IMHO the benefits outweigh the cost, making this feature worth the effort to try out.
The TB had no problem ending the first experiment (long ago) when it failed. We should do a better job designing a feature and then see how it works.