This topic has gained a ton of controversy and likes from visitors, WTH
Yes I know, I saw TheNexusAvenger’s post, but I’m making this because I saw so many visitors abusing the system for every post they see in a certain topic, mainly in #updates, I have been receiving so many likes from them and so many like notifications from them
and thanks to visitors, I got the “Admired” badge as a new year’s gift, but I didn’t expect that badge to come, and I knew badges are worthless
I do have some points as to why visitors shouldn’t be able to like posts in general
Like booster accounts
Take a look at Tanhavampire, That is an alt account for WHOTEI, and most of the likes are for WHOTEI and he somehow managed to get away with it until cpguy5089 replied to this topic which mentions the account, but the user was suspended, but the likes stay, even to the one that belongs to WHOTEI
Notice WHOTEI being the top of the list, He got 239 likes from that account, Even my former friend made a like booster account named ALbaraa_MAKX, He boosted his (now suspended) main account and I have a old picture of him doing it
It shows that he boosted it (it was on his ALbaraa_MAKX account), these accounts were visitors and hadn’t posted anything
Like farmers
Many people came here just to make low quality posts only to farm likes, Hell. I’ve seen some people like lV0rd [He is suspended for being involved in a LGBTQ topic and spammed “haram” in that topic because he is a muslim, He is still in the forum under the account tins4packabs] admit that it’s all what they’re here for, This is proof
Visitors not being able to like posts may help reduce the like farmers?
Like Spam
There are false claims about them “enjoying reading” posts, but it’s incorrect. Do they enjoy reading posts like this?
There’s no way they enjoy reading posts with some garbage like “charrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs” and such, People put these garbage to bypass the minimum characters, and I even managed to get 4.2k likes with 85% being from visitors if my math isn’t bad, It makes likes feel irrelevant and it makes likes worthless to visitors
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It can cause notification spam, I am aware of this feature
but it’s inconveinent to some people like me, I want to know when my post gets interacted, People suggest like notifications restricted to members which is a good idea, so That could be a good suggestion, but it doesn’t help with like booster accounts unfortunately
Recent addition is that DarkPixlz has a valid point on his own topic, Visitors are liking posts to “rank up”, Before you say “one criteria of getting member is liking posts”, S H U T. The one and only way of getting member is Reading like 1.5k posts
I appreciate @pyxfluff for supporting this topic, but I don’t feel like visitors should have the ability to like posts in general, He made a feature request to prevent visitors from liking inactive threads, which is an good idea, as they’re necrobumping and annoying people like me
