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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWill we ever get "like" buttons for individual posts on this site?
Why or why not?
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Will we ever get "like" buttons for individual posts on this site? (Original Post)
TheDebbieDee
Jun 2016
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But think of all the real estate it takes up on the servers and the management. Each person would
applegrove
Jun 2016
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applegrove
(118,489 posts)1. +1 or +100 works.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)3. But a "like" button is better. One click and you're DONE!
applegrove
(118,489 posts)5. But think of all the real estate it takes up on the servers and the management. Each person would
need a list of people who liked their reply. So a thread with hundreds of replies would have tons and tons of likes. We can only ask Skinner et al to do so much.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)6. I love you, Applegrove but you're an apologist!
You shouldn't be able to come up with well-thought out, practical answers for these kinds of dilemmas...
You prolly have a practical reason for the existence of the Trump campaign, too. Don't you?
applegrove
(118,489 posts)7. Trump is a dyslexic politician. They are natural politicians. Their
numbers include Churchill, Woodrow Wilson, Kennedy, Reagan, George H W Bush, George W. Bush. They can either be puppets, when they are Republicans, or really great, when they are Democrats. Trump is a puppet of the GOP and of his own narcissism. He will never be great.
rug
(82,333 posts)2. Because for six months afterward we'd be arguing whether there should be a dislike button.
Interspersed with threads about the ignore feature.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)4. That would just be the democratic process at work!
Skittles
(153,111 posts)8. please, NO
I DESPISE that juvenile Facebook garbage