Man of Honour
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It's discriminatory against people like me who only ever post nonsense.
Glad we aren't having it
@mrk yeah it's annoying how every single YT video (ever) now ends with, "Don't forget to like and subscribe!". I guess the implication is we're all a bunch of attention deficit morons. Anyway, my total subs: 0. Screw you, social media influencers!
Glad we aren't having it
@mrk yeah it's annoying how every single YT video (ever) now ends with, "Don't forget to like and subscribe!". I guess the implication is we're all a bunch of attention deficit morons. Anyway, my total subs: 0. Screw you, social media influencers!
Man of Honour
Why would we want a feature here that exists only for the purpose of bullying and imposing conformity? This isn't an antisocial media site. There are too many of those already.
We already have a personal rating system for the only place it serves a legitimate purpose - members market transactions.
That is the intended market for such videos, so maybe they have a point.
Same here. I bookmark channels I like. I don't log in to Google. I don't want to be forced into confirmation bias and I don't want to be a product, so of course I don't sign in to Google or use Google's search engine. I did have a Google account I made to answer a question on a history video, but I forgot the password and was unable to recover the account. No great loss.
We already have a personal rating system for the only place it serves a legitimate purpose - members market transactions.
That is the intended market for such videos, so maybe they have a point.
Anyway, my total subs: 0. Screw you, social media influencers!
Same here. I bookmark channels I like. I don't log in to Google. I don't want to be forced into confirmation bias and I don't want to be a product, so of course I don't sign in to Google or use Google's search engine. I did have a Google account I made to answer a question on a history video, but I forgot the password and was unable to recover the account. No great loss.
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I have thought about a likes button on OcUK on a few occasions, but I agree with most of you now that it's a bad idea. Same on Facebook.
The only platform where I think likes are useful are on deviantART (as faves). Press the fave button on artwork that you like then you can arrange the faves into folders so that you can see what you have historically faved.
The only platform where I think likes are useful are on deviantART (as faves). Press the fave button on artwork that you like then you can arrange the faves into folders so that you can see what you have historically faved.
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Don't forget to tick that bell icon too.
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Mob mentality...
But honesty, props to the guys who resisted this. I really miss forums, so it's good to have one here. Reddit for example is a nice design in theory, but damn, talk about the perfect information farm, among other issues.
But honesty, props to the guys who resisted this. I really miss forums, so it's good to have one here. Reddit for example is a nice design in theory, but damn, talk about the perfect information farm, among other issues.
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Remember kids, likes equals validation.
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I would have thought that this would be useful everywhere other than GD, so you can let people know their solution helped you
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Likes and dislikes are pretty silly. Reddit has upvotes and downvotes and the more upvotes a post gets the higher it gets in publicity view the more people see it.
Used to create automatic popularity.
Used to create automatic popularity.
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Can we have a Nob Head one as well - or Idiot -pansy - you stupid boy --I think these would get more use than Like. -
Ps - keep it to GD though.
--I think these would get more use than Like. - Ps - keep it to GD though.
Man of Honour
This place is worse than Facebook, why would you want to add the thing that makes Facebook silly?
Commissario
Don't you think that a reply saying "Thanks" is much nicer than a silly 'like' button?
Man of Honour
I reckon 10% of my post count is saying Thanks to helpful people.
On Pedelecs they only have a 'Thumbs Up' button which is a nice touch.
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Liked.
oh good Lord no! there's a big enough of a circle jerk goes on in GD/SC already.....imagine the blackhole of despair this place would become if those in the circle were getting their idiotic posts 'bigged up' by like minded people (i've used he term 'people' to avoid any offence
i can see it already......'how dare you question my super intelligent, clever as **** post....i have 3 likes so **** you'.......like buttons only encourage stupid people to be even stupider!
 I think we should stir it up a bit by having only a dislike button. That way the community can regularly can tell certain members how much **** they spout out.
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Reminds me a bit of that black mirror episode nose dive, where everyone is super pleasant to each other in fear of getting a low rating from their interaction.
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This is what makes sense to me - seems common on other PC and technical/hobby forums. That said, this forum works reasonably well as it is.