I voted no. I don't see the point.

You don't happen to mean members who have no posts, and who likely will never have any posts, do you? :D

I've never seen any point to this sort of feature, and an attempt to introduce this feature on the main forum I frequent resulted in chaos and it was removed within days. This isn't Facebook.

I wouldn't want such a button.

Reasons for me are detrimental development of cliques as mentioned before and seen in many other forums but much more that public opinion would be more guided by the amounts of "likes" and subsequent answerds directed in this direction (can happen on purpose but more often it's subconcious). I like to trawl through posts and find many snippets I might not if the "right" i.e. popular opinion is guided (again, not necessarily on purpose but we just work that way).

My bold ... that was my only thought [if it even happened, which I'm not convinced it did].

I shall sit back and let democracy, and the good judgement of TalkBoard, take its course ;)

I would have thought so, but I guess if your mind is already made up regardless, this isn't a consideration.

Interesting to see a big jump in votes overnight again ;)

Perhaps, but in that thread there are more posting that they do not support the like button than do support it & their reasons why. They're very polite in their reasoning :)

Cheers.

On the advice of counsel ;) and even where the poll is anonymous, I would be curious if IB has the ability/capability to see how many if any of the voters are in fact brand new members

I was talking about FlyerTalk members.

As for Internet Brands, I have no knowledge about how — or if — the company would potentially benefit from the implementation of a “like” button...

All due respect but, can we dial it back a notch here? I would say there's a 99.999999% chance that there is no lobbying effort. Yes, nsx wants this button, but I imagine he has better things to do with his time, as does anyone else in favor of this, then going out and lobbying people to vote for it. We're talking about a possible change to an internet bulletin board here...let's keep some perspective.

Plus, that poll can go to 60/40, or 75/25, and certain TB Members will still vote no.

Are you saying that TB Members will ignore the poll and vote the way they were going to anyway? If so, then what is the purpose of the poll? We really want your opinion {winky winky}. :confused:

While some might be PMing their FT buddies to stop by & vote a certain way, I doubt if anyone is really going out & creating new handles to do so. That's a little too black helicopter.

There's probably a way, although I'm not willing to spend much time thinking of one & IB pretty much lets FT do its own thing according to the CD. If like was being driven by IB for financial reasons, it would have been implemented a long time ago.

On a dif note, jackal had posted earlier that having a like/helpful button would get people to post more additional information/wouldn't be too lazy to post because they love the kudos that would come from a like. Interestingly enough, someone posted the opposite on the BA thread - that in the past they might contribute more or add on to what someone said, but now if they can just get by with posting like/helpful to someone they won't feel the need to provide additional information like they would have previously.

Cheers.

The poll is merely a tiny sample of people on this website. We have to vote based on what we think is best for Flyertalk. Will the votes of 500 or so be enough to change the FT experience for half a million people? Also, there's a number of responses in a separate thread in the BA forum that have to be taken into account.

From what I've seen posted on this thread, TB members are paying attention to both the thread(s) & to the poll. There are 9 TB members. Some are wildly supportive & might vote yes re: of the poll/threads; some not really that supportive & might vote no re: of the poll/threads, and some will vote based more on the poll/threads (in TB, BA & Omni). And some might think they're going to vote one way & post it & then change their mind, as discussions occur. Sometimes viewpoints change; sometimes they don't. A poll wouldn't have been created & left open for a month if it was going to be ignored. However, the poll is not the only conduit for info. There are some threads (including this one) where FTers are being asked to provide input both for & against. TB members are paying attention (from what I can tell) to BOTH the threads & to the poll.

FWIW - prior to the thread getting bumped by nsx, the like thread had been dormant for a year. When it was active a year ago, FTers were pretty evenly split 50/50 on whether they wanted like. After the thread was bumped, the input was still pretty evenly split 50/50. After the poll was created, the no's were leading the yes's until recently. But even now the two aren't that far apart. Basically there's not a clear or clamoring mandate by FTers for such a feature.

Cheers.