Originally Posted by SuperG1955

I don't believe it has any real value here.

This board is for questions and answers as well as information exchange not who likes who, which IMO, is how it will quickly evolve. If you want to be liked, use FB or become a TWIT. If you want to communicate information, use FT.

Additionally, if you have a "like" you should have a "dislike" as a counterbalance. While you're at it, how about an IBTL button.

I dislike a lot of the misinformation that's posted and would welcome a way to indicate it with a simple button, equivalent to a -1. Maybe you could label it BS.

You can accomplish the same thing with the use of a -1 in addition to the +1. Also, will the "like" or "dislike" count as a post? If not, the post count padders won't use it.

I probably got a little carried away but that's FT. If you don't like what I wrote, don't "like" it!

Originally Posted by GUWonder

The trial underway is installing a scoring/rating of FTers rather than just a rating of any given post. That may well be the intention of this proposal and trial, no less so when given the software has by default done what it is done to do: include the member's rating/reputation scores in the member profiles.

This seems set to be just what I said it would be: an opportunity for popularity contests and cliques to play games. Could be fun for a while but it's not going to add to my idea of an improved user experience but perhaps for its fleeting entertainment value and to see who is more popular than whom on FT.