Ocuk should have a like button

I wouldn't be opposed to having a like button on a trial basis if you can only 'like' comments and it takes 50 likes for it to show.

Then have a system so we can view all the 'liked' posts, which should be the funniest on the forum.
 
the CARS forum has a like system that works pretty well. the "i like" button is there so that the devs get some sort of an idea as to how many people like a new feature that they are asking the community about.
its really there to stop threads being flooded with +1s (or variations of +1s).

that wouldnt be much use over here, so i dont see any need to add an i like system
 
I wouldn't be opposed to having a like button on a trial basis if you can only 'like' comments and it takes 50 likes for it to show.

Then have a system so we can view all the 'liked' posts, which should be the funniest on the forum.

The screen flickers in the dark room. It's night time or early evening, we can't tell from here and the curtains are shut blocking out any natural light. As our camera drifts in closer more detail becomes apparent : pictures of a man, a house, an older couple, a school. Not pictures, photographs. Red crayon marks describe circles on certain photos and now we notice newspaper cuttings as well.

It looks like an intel room from a film. The man at the computer hasn't seen us yet so we continue looking, observing, not yet worried.

The flickering screen shows an open website. A strong blue blackground with white type and this triggers something in us, something we should remember, something we should note. It passes and we take a closer look at the walls, the man still somehow unaware of our presence.

The man in the photographs is tall and not unattractive. Several of the shots appear to have been taken from distance, the grainy images looking almost ghostlike. Childlike scribblings - again in red crayon (is it red crayon? we ask) - state, "Him taking a walk", "Him at the gym", and "Nitefly sleeping". We stare, unsure who 'him' or 'Nitefly' are, wondering if they are the same person. They look very similar and we conclude that they must be the same man. Who the older couple are we don't know. The school? The house? We don't know. Is the man a teacher? Is that his house?

A noise alerts us. The clack-clack of a keyboard. The man is typing. We peer closer.

"The screen flickers in the dark room. It's night time or early evening, we can't tell from here and the curtains are shut blocking out any natural light. As our camera drifts in closer more detail becomes apparent : pictures of a man, a house, an older couple, a school. Not pictures, photographs. Red crayon marks describe circles on certain pictures and now we notice newspaper cuttings as well.

It looks like an intel room from a film. The man at the computer hasn't seen us yet so we continue looking, observing, not yet worr-"


The man turns around suddenly, staring directly at us, through us. We shiver, struck dumb with fear. Time stops. Time starts. The man turns back in his chair and begins typing again.

"50 likes and I come to visit you," he says outloud. His voice sounds dry, broken. "50 likes," he says, looking at the man in the photos on his walls. He picks up the red crayon (it's blood, we think, it's blood), stands up and delicately scratches an X over the man's face. He joins the X with a thick line to the house on an adjacent photograph. Standing back he nods, appreciating his own work.

Our camera backs away, horrified, and we leave the room, the house, the area quickly, our legs buckling and our heads filled with confusion.
 
I vote for a 10-tier like/dislike approach such as:

This post makes me vomit, poop and bleed with furious rage
Worse than AIDS, cancer and Wigan
Rather kiss a ginger than read this
Hates
Dislike
Like
Loves
Makes my pee-pee tingle
Want sloppy buttsekz
Would gouge my own face out just to be close to this post
 
They tried to make me go to rehab, I said...
No.

No.

No.

The whole 'everything must involve Facebook' idea ATM is starting to **** me off.

I tried to register a Spotify account for a friend earlier, and the only way you can do it now is by having a FB account. And if you don't have an FB account, the form you fill in on the Spotify site, creates one for you! Madness.
 
A rep button would be nice, like a thanks button.

The only thing this forum needs is the ability to make your own poll, but since this is ocuk if they do bring that option in, all of the threads will be spammed with polls for the first week or so. :D
 
Why would it be needed though? Just seems pointless to me, and only as an opportunity for a user to say 'oooo look at me I've got 10393482040 thanks!'.

The Technical term for these people are "Thanks Whores" and it leads to people filling most of the first 20-30 replies to thread with "Funny" responses to get thanked. Nothing gets discussed and threads become meaningless.

Please never introduce this, at least not in GD - it has ruined other forums.

Nate
 
haha spam your rep up members market scammage :(

so many things would go wrong.

like a good recipe dont change it ;)
 
The Technical term for these people are "Thanks Whores" and it leads to people filling most of the first 20-30 replies to thread with "Funny" responses to get thanked. Nothing gets discussed and threads become meaningless.

Please never introduce this, at least not in GD - it has ruined other forums.

Nate

At first I thought it would be a good idea. But what you've said is true, so I'm against the idea.

If only there were a like button, it would save this post. ;)
 
No need. If someone is spurting rubbish, other users are quick to shoot them down in a torrent of words :)
 
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