Change the Like Button please.

[Shipp]

Liking a post is less damaging and less likely to happen "just because someone likes you" then the opposite. You wont enter a topic that doesn't interest you too often because you like a poster. People will if they dislike them.

True, but why even have a "like" button? Why not have a report button that basically does the same thing, specifically for rating up posts containing opinions of things the "reporter" would also like to see added to the game? Stops the childish rate-ups for stupid off-topic things that the devs shouldn't have to waste time looking at like, "I like my coffee black and without sugar."

You know as well as I do, that certain people on this forum could post that one sentence, completely off-topic from anything else in the thread, and there would be someone who hits the like button, just because they think it's funny. I guess my point is that the current system seems fairly useless unless there is also a dislike button, unless the devs are using this to see popular opinions. If that's the only reason, they could easily hide the number of "likes", make it a "report to devs" button so people know it isn't for BS but actually to get the attentions of devs, and devs could have a more accurate portrayal of game-changes people like, verses crap that gets likes for being funny/ganging up/whatever.

[SpankWustler]

Something just occurred to me...

If large amounts of "Like"s are used to get the attention of people who forward things to other people, is it possible one of my more-liked posts about the Development Team running around naked has been translated and forwarded all the way to the Development Team because of immutable company policies about forwarding things?

If they're summarized along the way, I can only imagine that one day the Development Team walked into work to discover the vital feedback, "I feel the Development Team does not wear trousers often enough."

[Karbuncle]

Something just occurred to me...

If large amounts of "Like"s are used to get the attention of people who forward things to other people, is it possible one of my more-liked posts about the Development Team running around naked has been translated and forwarded all the way to the Development Team because of immutable company policies about forwarding things?

If they're summarized along the way, I can only imagine that one day the Development Team walked into work to discover the vital feedback, "I feel the Development Team does not wear trousers often enough."

Your posts probably flood their inbox if likes has anything to do with it.

[SpankWustler]

Your posts probably flood their inbox if likes has anything to do with it.

"I'VE LISTENED TO EVERY SUGGESTION FORWARDED TO ME! I'M WEARING SEVENTEEN PAIRS OF PANTS AND IT'S THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER, DAMN IT! WHAT MORE DO THE NORTH AMERICAN PLAYERS WANT FROM ME?!?!"

[cidbahamut]

"I'VE LISTENED TO EVERY SUGGESTION FORWARDED TO ME! I'M WEARING SEVENTEEN PAIRS OF PANTS AND IT'S THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER, DAMN IT! WHAT MORE DO THE NORTH AMERICAN PLAYERS WANT FROM ME?!?!"

Photographs of it, obviously.