Seen this a bit on the forum lately, and far to tired to write an essay about it so just going to give a quick summary.
On my time on this forum ive seen a lot of:
‘From the fact you’ve liked this post’
‘Why have you being liking the post’
‘The fact that you liked both posts’
Etc. etc. etc. in order to try and ‘reinforce’ their arguments or just launch an attack on someone.
Personally I feel people should respect likes as something almost anonymous, and not use it to try and show someone stance on a situation, view, This is mainly because people can like posts for several reasons, for example I could like a post because for the following reasons:
I agree with what is being said
I found the post descriptive / thorough
I found the post accurate
I found the post amusing
I just generally get along with the person to have an unconscious bias towards what they are saying.
You will notice only 20% of that list is me liking a post because I agree with it.
In summary can people please please please stop judging people on what posts they like as if its some endorsement of their views.
Its surprising how many users (a large portion have been permanently suspended which tells you a bit about the users that normally do this) have based large portions of their arguments on which users have liked certain posts, and even sometimes when users havn’t liked certain posts, I recognise this is by far the minority of the forum, however I would say I see at least one instance of this on a weekly basis.
Indeed it is. But luckily we can flag this type of post because it is basically a personal attack in a way
yes, I saw it in a help and feedback post, someone decided to use “you liked this post so your argument is invalid” or something like that. Was less than a month ago
I really agree with this post, we shouldn’t be judging others because they liked something. It’s hurtful and can manipulate the person who was being judged in a bad way. It sucks that it’s a point that someone has to make.
Yup. I’ve deleted posts before because I attempted to join a conversation yet while everybody else has been liked, I didn’t feel as though my post was acknowledged. Maybe as a rule of thumb we ought to just pretend as though likes aren’t there, lol.
I tend to like posts if they’re just good quality, tbh. If somebody is being thorough, descriptive, and helpful, I’ll show some appreciation of it. Similar to an upvote on Reddit.
I get what your saying. Personally I haven’t seen any of this (doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen). I like stuff, either because it looks good and people have put effort into it (like portfolios or showcases) or I like/understand what the person is saying.
Yeah, true. It’s sad that we get these feelings just because we have low likes. To be honest, the closer your post is to the top, the more likes it has (generally). This is because most people will read the topic and a few posts straight after before either writing their own post or moving on.
I agree with this. Or, they could add an anonymous liking mode which you could enable/disable in preferences.
