Feature Request: Upvote / Like button

Steven Reed said:Look, slycrane94—this is exactly why we need Facebook back. 🙂 🙂

@nimbleharbor10, how exactly do you plan on following a conversation if the reply to a question is buried five pages deep?

What’s even the point of having "high-quality" posts pinned at the top when you've got one single "patient" on this site who just keeps spawning clone accounts to upvote his own nonsense and downvote the actual substance?

northerncyclist2 said:I think there’s actually a vBulletin script out there for that, and I can tell you from experience it works pretty smoothly. Plus, it won't break the bank, which is nice. But...

...we're talking about Reddit here 😁

slycrane94 said:If we ever actually manage to fix this mess, we’ll need to add a double facepalm icon, because this proposal definitely deserves one.

nimbleharbor10 said:I’d like to propose a new feature for the platform. We should implement an upvote/downvote system—something like a "+1" button where users can indicate they like a post, agree with the sentiment, or simply think it's high-quality content.

Furthermore, we should allow users to sort posts within a thread by vote count rather than just chronologically. This could be an option when creating a thread or, ideally, a toggle available during browsing that everyone can adjust to their preference.

My reasoning is simple: this would ensure that insightful, high-value contributions rise to the top, while mindless bickering and off-topic tangents get pushed to the bottom where they belong.

Right now, we constantly deal with political threads that spiral into complete nonsense. You’ll start a discussion about Social Security, and suddenly people are screaming at each other about macroeconomics or partisan politics. It makes every single thread feel identical. It’s especially aggravating when you see two users just hurling insults at one another, posting nothing but "you're uneducated" or "only an idiot would think that." For those kinds of low-effort trolls, I’d suggest a "-1" mechanic designed to automatically sink their comments into a "trash" pile.

The secondary benefit of a +/- rating system is that it would significantly reduce the moderation workload, as the garbage content would naturally lose visibility and sink out of sight.

northerncyclist2 said:I think there’s actually a vBulletin script out there for that, and I can tell you from experience it works pretty smoothly. Plus, it won't break the bank, which is nice. But...

...we're talking about Reddit here 😁

Sam Alvarez4 said:What purpose would that even serve on a forum where people just use clone accounts while the admins look the other way? (I mean, as long as you don't have two clones of a banned user in the same thread, everything is technically "by the book," right?)
None at all...

nimbleharbor10 said:I’d like to propose a new feature for the platform. We should implement an upvote/downvote system—something like a "+1" button where users can indicate they like a post, agree with the sentiment, or simply think it's high-quality content.

Furthermore, we should allow users to sort posts within a thread by vote count rather than just chronologically. This could be an option when creating a thread or, ideally, a toggle available during browsing that everyone can adjust to their preference.

My reasoning is simple: this would ensure that insightful, high-value contributions rise to the top, while mindless bickering and off-topic tangents get pushed to the bottom where they belong.

Right now, we constantly deal with political threads that spiral into complete nonsense. You’ll start a discussion about Social Security, and suddenly people are screaming at each other about macroeconomics or partisan politics. It makes every single thread feel identical. It’s especially aggravating when you see two users just hurling insults at one another, posting nothing but "you're uneducated" or "only an idiot would think that." For those kinds of low-effort trolls, I’d suggest a "-1" mechanic designed to automatically sink their comments into a "trash" pile.

The secondary benefit of a +/- rating system is that it would significantly reduce the moderation workload, as the garbage content would naturally lose visibility and sink out of sight.

nimbleharbor10 said:I’d like to propose a new feature for the platform. We should implement an upvote/downvote system—something like a "+1" button where users can indicate they like a post, agree with the sentiment, or simply think it's high-quality content.

Furthermore, we should allow users to sort posts within a thread by vote count rather than just chronologically. This could be an option when creating a thread or, ideally, a toggle available during browsing that everyone can adjust to their preference.

My reasoning is simple: this would ensure that insightful, high-value contributions rise to the top, while mindless bickering and off-topic tangents get pushed to the bottom where they belong.

Right now, we constantly deal with political threads that spiral into complete nonsense. You’ll start a discussion about Social Security, and suddenly people are screaming at each other about macroeconomics or partisan politics. It makes every single thread feel identical. It’s especially aggravating when you see two users just hurling insults at one another, posting nothing but "you're uneducated" or "only an idiot would think that." For those kinds of low-effort trolls, I’d suggest a "-1" mechanic designed to automatically sink their comments into a "trash" pile.

The secondary benefit of a +/- rating system is that it would significantly reduce the moderation workload, as the garbage content would naturally lose visibility and sink out of sight.

nimbleharbor10 said:Everyone here is jumping to conclusions and throwing insults without actually reading my post in its entirety; you are simply attacking your own misinterpretations of what I wrote.

My suggestion has absolutely nothing to do with Facebook, Google Circles, or any similar social media platforms. It is quite simple: instead of quoting a post just to say "I agree" or "that's it," I should be able to just click a button.

I explicitly stated that this would be an "option during viewing THAT EVERYONE CAN CHANGE FOR THEMSELVES." If you want to follow the flow of a conversation, you sort chronologically. If you want to see the "top" content, you sort by votes.
Both chronological and qualitative sorting have their respective advantages and drawbacks. The fundamental flaw in our current system is that high-quality contributions buried at the bottom of a page or in the middle of a massive discussion become completely invisible, which leads to repetitive arguments and causes threads to die out whenever a heated political flame war breaks out between opposing factions.

nimbleharbor10 said:Everyone here is jumping to conclusions and throwing insults without actually reading my post in its entirety; you are simply attacking your own misinterpretations of what I wrote.

My suggestion has absolutely nothing to do with Facebook, Google Circles, or any similar social media platforms. It is quite simple: instead of quoting a post just to say "I agree" or "that's it," I should be able to just click a button.

I explicitly stated that this would be an "option during viewing THAT EVERYONE CAN CHANGE FOR THEMSELVES." If you want to follow the flow of a conversation, you sort chronologically. If you want to see the "top" content, you sort by votes.
Both chronological and qualitative sorting have their respective advantages and drawbacks. The fundamental flaw in our current system is that high-quality contributions buried at the bottom of a page or in the middle of a massive discussion become completely invisible, which leads to repetitive arguments and causes threads to die out whenever a heated political flame war breaks out between opposing factions.

nimbleharbor10 said:Everyone here is jumping to conclusions and throwing insults without actually reading my post in its entirety; you are simply attacking your own misinterpretations of what I wrote.

My suggestion has absolutely nothing to do with Facebook, Google Circles, or any similar social media platforms. It is quite simple: instead of quoting a post just to say "I agree" or "that's it," I should be able to just click a button.

I explicitly stated that this would be an "option during viewing THAT EVERYONE CAN CHANGE FOR THEMSELVES." If you want to follow the flow of a conversation, you sort chronologically. If you want to see the "top" content, you sort by votes.
Both chronological and qualitative sorting have their respective advantages and drawbacks. The fundamental flaw in our current system is that high-quality contributions buried at the bottom of a page or in the middle of a massive discussion become completely invisible, which leads to repetitive arguments and causes threads to die out whenever a heated political flame war breaks out between opposing factions.

Sophia Thomas7 said:And naturally, that script just pushes posts with tons of upvotes right to the top, just like the intro promised? Yeah, sounds absolutely brilliant.

northerncyclist2 said:I mean, definitely not. That whole part of the proposal is just kind of silly, I guess. ☕

Also, what kind of cookie is a dropdown menu?

Sophia Thomas7 said:How can we be sure it’s stupid? Your own post implies a script like that actually exists.

A dropdown menu is a dropdown menu.

northerncyclist2 said:There’s actually a script out there that handles liking or upvoting posts. It pings the user when they get a like, and you can even set it up to show total counts per user, or even run a global leaderboard for top likers and receivers... I mean, the specs are all right there if you bother to read them. http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/vbeco...t&productid=22

Man, I know what a dropdown menu is. ☕

So, what was it actually supposed to do?

Steven Reed said:Before they brutally snatched it away from us during one frantic night—it served as a way to jump from one PDF to another without having to go back to the cover page every single time. In other words, it was an elevator, unlike the stairs we’re stuck climbing now.🤷

northerncyclist2 said:Oh, right! Yeah, that used to be a standard feature on Unknown. I just realized it’s gone. I wonder what on earth they decided to remove?