Originally Posted by
amunter
Someone chooses to game it and artificially get their "Like" count up on a specific post or posts? Seems like that will be self-policing pretty fast. If I see that someone's posts are always heavily Liked when their content doesn't (IMHO) warrant it, then I'll start to discount that person's posts. And in any event, the stakes on this seem pretty low.
How do you think it is taken care of with self-policing? Not sure how that would work.
People clearly think that post count is a valid metric that means something here @ FT. Some people with a lot of posts often tend to get away with a lot of crap that doesn't belong. If they now also have a lot of "likes", most people won't look to see if they were really deserved. They'll just trust the system.
Edit: 2 additional things from the wiki:
* Will not eliminate +1s/+1s also provide positive feedback
My comment on post count reminded me how much some care about this. So the people we REALLY don't want to hear from (the ones that already share their thoughts on *everything*, whether they have experience on the topic or not), will continue to clog up the thread.
* Can threads or individual posts deemed helpful be bookmarked/saved?
This can be done today, and is entirely unrelated to a voting system (use the favorites/bookmarks option of your browser).