Author Topic: Liking but not writing ! (Read 2424 times - 5 votes)
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Scrambler82 · « **on:** November 10, 2020, 01:59:08 PM »

Hello and I am not sure this is the correct place for this suggestion.

I find, that when I read a posting, either within a Post I started or someone else's post that I find interesting, that I want to say something but all too often I don't have the correct wording because I am too much of a novice.

In thinking on this, and of another Web Site, the other Site has a "Like Button" and it makes saying something about the posting without adding a lot of words to the Thread.
Also, without an additional non-meaningful post, the Site would save on storage space.

I know a lot of people think the Like Button is a foolish idea but I have found it a very useful and easy to use idea to quickly post a Like to the posting instead of filling the Site with a bunch of meaningly-less comments that really say nothing.
i.e. "Thanks, I like it, Great idea, Why didn't I think of that" !
All of these comments that we could do without, at least on my end I could do without posting !

Thanks for listening, for reading, and for consideration to improve a quick response to some of the postings !

Ltr

Xraycer · « **Reply #1 on:** November 10, 2020, 08:49:45 PM »

This was tried a couple of years ago.

Bicycleman · « **Reply #2 on:** November 11, 2020, 09:51:11 AM »

Grev B., it seems that on this Forum, folks have used the thumbs-up.
Your suggestion is a good one [in my opinion], and should have been part of this Forum before now. Maybe in the near future - if enough SPONSORS requested it . . . .

sb327 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 11, 2020, 10:04:42 AM »

I am curious. Does the thumbs up from an iOS show up on other systems?

Like this > 👍

Dave

avator · « **Reply #4 on:** November 11, 2020, 10:09:17 AM »

Believe it or not something as simple as adding a "like/dislike" button requires software changes. A couple things about software changes...
First, unless it's open source software, someone owns the copyrights to the code. Changes would need to come from that owner/s or, at best, approved.
Secondly, programming changes cost money. It's not just a flip of a switch.
And finally, Yes, we have discussed this in the past and it was determined that it could potentially cause unwanted friction among our members.
Not many of us here are professional forum gurus... heck, many of us, including myself, can't even literate, punctuate, correlate or even as it comes to bulls eyes... perforate. But what we can do is share, in our own terms, our knowledge, experience and interests in air gunning.
I've seen, in the past, members ridiculing other members for typos, missed punctuations and post structuring...
I say to them... congratulations... you right gooder than me but, I didn't come here for your opinion and I promise not to offer mine about your shortcomings...

So please, feel free to offer your airgunning insight, or lack there of. I, for one, got your back...

Bicycleman · « **Reply #5 on:** November 11, 2020, 10:46:49 AM »

WOW, Bill! That's deep.

Hoosier Daddy · « **Reply #6 on:** November 11, 2020, 10:50:25 AM »

How hard is it to type ^LIKE^ ?

Scrambler82 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 11, 2020, 11:15:26 AM »

All of the above may be right in one sense or another but a simple button is what it is... "A Simple Button" !

It isn't just posting the "LIKE", you need to post, you need to have it accepted... not hard, yes, but a simple button.

What is, is what is... but it would save storage space and I do donate to the site, not much but I am not just coming up with ideas just for someone else to spend money.
I don't understand causing friction... WHY is that ?

Thanks for the feedback, I was just asking, more thinking out loud !
It work well on other sights so I thought if no one had suggested it before it might be a good choice here too.

Ltr

Bicycleman · « **Reply #8 on:** November 11, 2020, 11:22:08 AM »

Grev B. said: "it might be a good choice here too." <--- That is the whole point!

avator · « **Reply #9 on:** November 11, 2020, 11:34:15 AM »

There is also, albeit more general, this option.....
In the screenshot below, circled in red, is a thread rating feature. With this, members have the option to "rate" the contents/topics/discussions of the thread.
Granted, it's not your 'like' button but for now, it's as close as we're gonna get.
And as always, the staff at GTA appreciate, welcome and consider ALL suggestions from it's members.

Bicycleman · « **Reply #10 on:** November 11, 2020, 11:53:09 AM »

So, would selecting ONE star be like leaving a tip lf $0.10?

avator · « **Reply #11 on:** November 11, 2020, 12:20:48 PM »

It would be like what my wife sometimes considers me as..... better than nothing.

Scrambler82 · « **Reply #12 on:** November 12, 2020, 06:15:59 AM »

Thanks for the input !

Rating a Topic is a touchy point... the Poster may not know who is rating them but if the posting only gets one or two stars overall the Poster may not post again, no matter how much they know about a subject.

A LIKE Button, is just that... "I like what you are saying but I don't have anything more to say" !

The LIKE Button thing is just something I came across on another Site, liked it, yes I pressed the button, and wondered why other Sites didn't have it, Quick and Easy.

I am not really looking to change things, or cause friction as I normally do, I was thinking it might help out somehow. A quick LIKE Button saves time.

Thanks to all for reading this Thread and Posting but I still LIKE the LIKE Button, oh ya I don't have a button to press... LoL !

Later

p.s. Where were those stars !

Bentong · « **Reply #13 on:** November 13, 2020, 11:44:42 PM »

👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👌👌👌👍👍👍

Bicycleman · « **Reply #14 on:** November 14, 2020, 09:37:53 AM »

Grev, to see the 'STARS', go back to your first post at the beginning of this thread. The stars are in the information bar right above.

Scrambler82 · « **Reply #15 on:** November 16, 2020, 11:45:55 PM »

Quote from: Bicycleman on November 14, 2020, 09:37:53 AM

Grev, to see the 'STARS', go back to your first post at the beginning of this thread. The stars are in the information bar right above.

Thanks, I was more joking the serious... but I didn't know the stars were just on the OP.
I will check it out !

mrbulk · « **Reply #16 on:** November 16, 2020, 11:55:16 PM »

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

mrbulk · « **Reply #17 on:** November 16, 2020, 11:58:57 PM »

I brought up this same subject a month or two ago. Had a couple positive comments but as was posted above, they’ve been there, done that, and it was unsuccessfully tried before. Oh well...I’ll use thumbs then (but somehow they Only work on my phone!)...

Lt. Dan · « **Reply #18 on:** November 17, 2020, 08:23:20 AM »

Quote from: avator on November 11, 2020, 10:09:17 AM

Believe it or not something as simple as adding a "like/dislike" button requires software changes. A couple things about software changes...
First, unless it's open source software, someone owns the copyrights to the code. Changes would need to come from that owner/s or, at best, approved.
Secondly, programming changes cost money. It's not just a flip of a switch.
And finally, Yes, we have discussed this in the past and it was determined that it could potentially cause unwanted friction among our members.
Not many of us here are professional forum gurus... heck, many of us, including myself, can't even literate, punctuate, correlate or even as it comes to bulls eyes... perforate. But what we can do is share, in our own terms, our knowledge, experience and interests in air gunning.
I've seen, in the past, members ridiculing other members for typos, missed punctuations and post structuring...
I say to them... congratulations... you right gooder than me but, I didn't come here for your opinion and I promise not to offer mine about your shortcomings...
So please, feel free to offer your airgunning insight, or lack there of. I, for one, got your back...

Like

Lt. Dan · « **Reply #19 on:** November 17, 2020, 08:26:22 AM »

Quote from: Bicycleman on November 11, 2020, 11:53:09 AM

So, would selecting ONE star be like leaving a tip lf $0.10?

Haha. Oh yeah. "Scott you may have started something...LIKE "

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