I have seen Top Contibutors get WAY TOO MANY likes on their posts, even twice the amounts of the top liked post on the topic.
The question is, why do people always agree with top contibutors just because they have a badge on their profile picture?
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Top contributors are people that are verified to be good members of the community. Itâs a more select group of people, just like how youâd trust the word of sages and staff.
Even saying that, someone with top contributor wonât necessarily get more likes. A top contributor with an obviously wrong stance wonât get likes.
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The flair is part of it, but also because of @M_cawâs reasoning. Top contributor and any other flair is bound to get you respect, it is just a natural thing.
Well, Top Contributors usually make ⌠top contributions to a post. For example, adding something significant that is overlooked by the majority, in which many people will like the post for it sharing a unique idea. Usually, Top Contributor responses are more accurate, more of quality, etc. than other posts, on average. Plus, I guess the flair is a little eyecatching too. 
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A Top Contributor literally pointed out a small visual bug in the new BubbleChat, and it got 66 likes, while when do normal members point out more critical bugs, they get like 10-20 likes.
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Then maybe the bug annoyed a lot of people so to express their support or whatever, they gave the reply a like.
There are millions of reasons as to why people can give likes, and top contributors likely get a lot because of what their flair means
Likes should not be one of your primary concerns when contributing to the devforum.
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I feel attacked.
Itâs the same with any badge though - whether it be staff or another trust level. Generally people will read those posts first.
There also is potentially an argument regarding quality of those posts and why they got the badge in the first placeâŚ
But in general, likes shouldnât bother you much. Strive to make quality contributions, not like-farms.
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I donât care about likes on the forums at all. It just however bothers me how the number is significantly bigger on top contributor posts.
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Unfortunately that statement is a bit contradictory. The likes on somebody elseâs post shouldnât affect you.
The only time I personally care about likes is either when:
a) Iâve tried to solve someoneâs problem, and they give a like to indicate it helped - other people liking it is irrelevant to me in this case.
b) Itâs a topic where Iâm showing something Iâve worked hard on.
Replies on someone elseâs topic are neither here nor there in terms of likes, though itâs useful to know people think it was a valuable response or not.
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I have plenty of posts that have been completely ignored, and someone spoonfeeding code gets more likes. I donât think the TC badge makes people like your posts, itâs just that the people making posts that everyone likes get TC sooner or later.
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I mean why do you care? Devforum isnât really for getting likes if someone likes a post thatâs there choice, why should you have a problem with it. I think the number of likes should be anymonous and only shown to the poster actually.
Why do likes matter? The probable reason is because there topics are helpful and really help the community, not to get attention or clout.
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Disclaimer; Iâm a Top Contributor.
I donât think my peers get âtoo many likesâ to be completely honest. I think youâve got the causality the wrong way round - being Top Contributor doesnât necessarily cause more people to like your post. Rather, Top Contributors tend to write posts which people find more useful or of higher quality (hence the rank), and people leave likes on posts which they find useful or high quality.
tl;dr if you want more likes, focus on writing better posts instead.
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While on the surface this may sound like a great idea to help feelings, itâs not the purpose of the developer forum to make people feel differently about themselves by comparing likes.
One practical use of showing likes is to show Roblox engineers in bug reports, feature requests, how useful it would be to other developers.
Another practical use is showing members what types of posts are respected most so each member can form their own dev forum persona using their own diverse knowledge set to fit into the âdeveloper hive mindâ which ultimately helps Roblox grow and developers improve.
Last use I can think about is if a posterâs question has been answered and they have liked a post with almost exactly what you wanted to say, you donât have to repeat it, you can also like it and move on. Double-time that move-on if they used the solution button.
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Someone liking a Top Contributorâs post doesnât necessarily they agree with them, their answer might be to a certain question someone had. Mostly, you shouldnât be interested in their like count, more of what they have to contribute to the topic. Of course, everyoneâs opinions matter, but Iâve never seen a trend where Top Contributors get more likes that other people. The Developer Forum is a place to exchange opinions and ask for help, not a place to earn more likes than others. The number of likes shouldnât bother you, all peopleâs opinions matter, and likes donât define that.
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Honestly, why does this bother you? People use the forum regularly, they make contributions and overtime they get to statuses such as TopContributer, which is valued and clearly evidenced. Itâs not a magnet for likes, but rather people value their reasoning and opinions. That aside, theyâve built trust with the community and effort is respected.
In scenarios like this, their opinion is valued. Itâs natural for one with a stronger connection
to be applauded and recognised compared to others, not so much.
Letâs take a scenario for example
lets say youâre a captain in a sports team. Others look up to you and value your opinions. They also respect your effort to plan out training sessions, co-operate with each individual, regardless, and generally boost the team spirit, hence itâs as a seen as an significant role.
We then have our team memberâs who have only been on the team for a few weeks (yes time matters, how can you gain trust and all of these other values without demonstrating you can consistently)
The leader and the members are going to be completely different, in terms of respect, value and trust.
You can see the correlation hereâŚ
Sorry to bump this thread, I just wanted to add something.
Itâs in the name. They contribute to the forum and more than likely what they reply with is relevant to the post and is helpful. What is even the point of this thread?
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I donât think this is as big of an issue as you do, but it is a part of a larger problem.
Top contributor isnât a small invite-only group. I believe the process is partly automatic. It is hard to control the spread of misinformation in such a large group of users. This is especially problematic when forum flairs can make you âright even when youâre wrongâ and are seen by some users as an endorsement of the user (note: theyâre not an endorsement).
It doesnât make sense for there to be a special title and a forum flair, especially when the group itself doesnât have much of a real purpose. It just creates a sense of authority where there isnât. I think a badge to congratulate you for actively contributing meaningful content is more than enough, unless the group ends up getting an actual purpose like crowd-sourced moderation or something.
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