Stop new accounts from liking and flagging inactive threads

[kbcubezz]

Its cause when people are trying to gain rep to post on dev forums they suggest to just keep liking posts. I liked alot of posts thinking it would help me get on the forums. Maybe they need to be more specific about the requirements

[Hooksmith]

Hi folks, linking a reply from other thread:

Visitors shouldn't be able to like posts

The point is that you can’t know what the reason for a Like is, it’s subjective and up to the user how they use them. We’re not going to blanket ban liking posts for visitors nor police Likes for any other reason just because a few users happen to be generous in how they use them. If you see users who are abusing the forum to create fake statistics on their accounts you can continue to flag that to moderation. For all other problems mentioned here, they can be solved by the recipient tweaking t…

If you would like to stop receiving the notifications, I recommend turning down the notification level for Liked posts in settings. You can turn it off or restrict it to once per day per post.

We’re not interested in making other changes here right now since there are more users that benefit from being able to Like than users that are inconvenienced with some notifications (that can be self-resolved), and also we do not currently have appetite for the engineering work that would be involved with stopping old threads from generating notifications. If the latter is important to you, consider flagging it to Discourse.