Foolish question of today

[RandyD1369]

Is there a way to indicate I've enjoyed or agreed with someone else's post or response WITHOUT having to actually open and write a comment myself?

For example, if person #1 says: "I hate hamburger," and I also hate hamburger, it would be nice (and useful) to have a one-click (or two, but without any typing on the keyboard) response to add a smile, or a frown, or a thumbs-up/down, or whatever to the individual post/comment being responded to.

It's pretty common for me (and I assume, other readers) to have a strong agreement or disagreement with a particular entry in a thread, but not want to devote the time and energy to write a full responding comment of my own.

If such a method already exists, could someone please explain it and where to find/how to use it? Perhaps with an example?

Thanks, guys.

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

Is there a way to indicate I've enjoyed or agreed with someone else's post or response WITHOUT having to actually open and write a comment myself?

For example, if person #1 says: "I hate hamburger," and I also hate hamburger, it would be nice (and useful) to have a one-click (or two, but without any typing on the keyboard) response to add a smile, or a frown, or a thumbs-up/down, or whatever to the individual post/comment being responded to.

It's pretty common for me (and I assume, other readers) to have a strong agreement or disagreement with a particular entry in a thread, but not want to devote the time and energy to write a full responding comment of my own.

If such a method already exists, could someone please explain it and where to find/how to use it? Perhaps with an example?

Thanks, guys.

I don't think there is. I don't really understand how it would be helpful, either, unless you were taking a poll. To use your example, why do you want someone to know that you hate hamburgers? If it's something you don't feel strongly about and don't have different thoughts about, what is it you are wanting people to know?

I wouldn't expect to see a feature like that developed. I don't think this is a platform that allows for customization of features.

 

[lovecraft68]

There's no like button here, and going further I think there is a five or so character minimum on a reply so if all you wanted to do was reply with a you'd have to do five of them.

Its not a bad idea, but I think we'd see it around the time Twitter actually adds an edit feature

 

[Handley_Page]

Is there a way to indicate I've enjoyed or agreed with someone else's post or response WITHOUT having to actually open and write a comment myself?


Thanks, guys.

I have felt fior a good while that a few more emoticons would be useful.
For example, Handshakes, thumbs-up [or down]. might well be helpful at times.

 

[RandyD1369]

Actually. EoN, it was one of your responses--that was exceedingly well thought out and expressed--in a different thread that inspired it. I didn't think my enjoyment of your comment was important enough, even to me, that I wanted to interrupt the thread to write simply "I concur." It seemed like overkill. I was hoping there might be some short-hand way to say so without creating a monster that needed much further attention. Now, we can clearly see how well THAT worked, LOL. If there's no "quick response" way to do that, in the future, I'll just say "I concur," or keep that thought to myself. Which, thinking about it, is exactly what I've done in the past.

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

Actually. EoN, it was one of your responses--that was exceedingly well thought out and expressed--in a different thread that inspired it. I didn't think my enjoyment of your comment was important enough, even to me, that I wanted to interrupt the thread to write simply "I concur." It seemed like overkill. I was hoping there might be some short-hand way to say so without creating a monster that needed much further attention. Now, we can clearly see how well THAT worked, LOL. If there's no "quick response" way to do that, in the future, I'll just say "I concur," or keep that thought to myself. Which, thinking about it, is exactly what I've done in the past.

It's not a monster. It's an idea. We like having stuff to think about, right? I guess I was just thinking about it in terms of the Facebook psychology. People who have studied the "Like" phenomenon have found that the existence of the feature is driving the content of people's posts, and even seems to be playing a role in the glamorized photos they post. Naturally, I can't give you the names of the articles I read on the subject because my brain simply refuses to record bibliographic information. I always have to hunt for things all over again. But the gist of it was that people changed what they were posting because they wanted to get the "likes." It was also causing people to monitor their feeds much more closely, sort of like addicts waiting for the likes to come in.

So, that was why I wondered, what would you want this to do? I don't think this bulletin board program is custom, though. I wouldn't be surprised if Reject Reality knows. He always seems to know stuff like site mechanics.

 

[LexxRuthless]

Not Foolish

Is there a way to indicate I've enjoyed or agreed with someone else's post or response WITHOUT having to actually open and write a comment myself?

For example, if person #1 says: "I hate hamburger," and I also hate hamburger, it would be nice (and useful) to have a one-click (or two, but without any typing on the keyboard) response to add a smile, or a frown, or a thumbs-up/down, or whatever to the individual post/comment being responded to.

It's pretty common for me (and I assume, other readers) to have a strong agreement or disagreement with a particular entry in a thread, but not want to devote the time and energy to write a full responding comment of my own.

If such a method already exists, could someone please explain it and where to find/how to use it? Perhaps with an example?

Thanks, guys.

I'm not going to throw out the platitude "There's no such thing as a bad question." As a former teacher, I assure you there are some really shitty questions. Usually those arise because someone isn't paying attention.

In this case, though, it was a perfectly legitimate question. If such a feature existed, I'm sure we would all like to know about it. I felt foolish posting a question about a site feature some time back, but it was reassuring when some of the seasoned authors did not know.

Laurel and Manu work hard to keep the ship afloat, and I appreciate the hell out of them. Some of the site features simply don't work the way we'd like. It shouldn't hurt to ask.

 

[PennameWombat]

I'm not going to throw out the platitude "There's no such thing as a bad question." As a former teacher, I assure you there are some really shitty questions. Usually those arise because someone isn't paying attention.

In this case, though, it was a perfectly legitimate question. If such a feature existed, I'm sure we would all like to know about it. I felt foolish posting a question about a site feature some time back, but it was reassuring when some of the seasoned authors did not know.

Laurel and Manu work hard to keep the ship afloat, and I appreciate the hell out of them. Some of the site features simply don't work the way we'd like. It shouldn't hurt to ask.

One of my hobbies is spending time on Quora, the Q&A website.

That website is truly definitive proof that there are bad, inane, stupid and utterly worthless questions. Especially from QPP members and the very busy Anonymous. There are also excellent questions.

I'm personally not bothered by the lack of a 'Like' button since I see this (especially the Authors' Hangout) as a discussion forum for exchange of ideas and opinions. But I don't see a problem with discussing the concept and maybe it would be a better fit on other fora in the Discussion Board.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I could have sworn that there was a way to rate a thread if not a post but I'll be damned if I can now find it. I ran into it when I was looking for something else to answer an How To question. I thought it was in the Thread Tools drop down, but I can't get it to appear.

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

Apology to the OP

Since this thread keeps popping up, it's made me think about by initial response to the OP, and I've decided I owe him an apology. I only meant to be asking a question (Why? What function?), but I realize now it came from an oppositional place. That's fine, but it wasn't the right way to say it. I think I could have done a lot better.

I did send a private apology, but I figured that since the offense was public, the apology should be, too.

 

[NoJo]

Ever since I got a few 'likes' after posting on Facebook that my father had just died , I decided to shun reactions. But now more than ten years later, I use them all the time on Slack. Mainly the thumbsup, which is quicker than typing "ok".

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

This is only a side note, but if there were a like button, I’d definitely like you Randy. My editing queue was full when LKilkenny asked me if I could help him with his first story; very soon after, he let me know that you were helping him and how great it was all going. I’ve read you guys’ two stories and they’re wonderful! Thumbs up, likes and five stars to you!

 

[RandyD1369]

Wow. Thank you, Vix. That's incredibly kind of you. You've just made my day--which really started out sort of crappy. There's no substitute for a smile or a hug when you really want one.
Randy
PS EoN and I have (metaphorically) kissed and made up, not that there was ever anything to make up for, but only a complete fool turns down a kiss.--R

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I knew I'd seen thread ratings before...

Of course I still don't know how to turn that on.

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

I knew I'd seen thread ratings before...

Of course I still don't know how to turn that on.

And if nobody knows how to turn it on, it makes me wonder what the ratings would be based on. Maybe it's an option that forum administrator has chosen not to make active.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And if nobody knows how to turn it on, it makes me wonder what the ratings would be based on. Maybe it's an option that forum administrator has chosen not to make active.

Or the moderator of that forum has turned it on.