Thumbs up?
Personally, I'm somewhat abivilent. "like" buttons cam have a detrimental effect too - especially for those who are perhaps less thick skinned than others...
"Everyone in the group but Joey liked my post! Joey must hate me!"
"OMG! Sam likes every post I do - I think he might be obsessed with me!"
On the other hand, I would sometimes like the opportunity to genuinely show my appreciation for someone's writing, or getting the acknowledgement from others for a well crafted post... In one of the games I used to run, I ran a system where people could give Kudos to others for good writing, which would in turn give in-game benefits - a kind of carrot to a) encourage good writing, and b) encourage mutual back-patting...
To be honest, it never really worked - I think over a 5 year period I had about 4 people actually congratulate others on the quality of their posts... and there were a bunch of good posts that were worth it, but rarely was anyone bothered / remembered to actually post in the Kudos thread... A like button on the other hand would, as ionathas has suggested, be a much easier way of giving credit where credit is due... I suspect my "con" argument is probably out-weighed by the "pro" of having an easy way of showing appreciation for others work... I'm sure if someone started "liking" everything everyone posted, it would devalue their opinion, but that would probably be far and few between...
This message was last edited by the user at 21:54, Mon 30 July 2018.