Change the Like Button please.

[Alhanelem]

Like "59" <- Jake doesn't like Mary so they got all their buddies together to camp their thread. This Like is really an Unlike. So basically this is unliking someone in a liking way!

You can't prove that the reason for those likes is to hate on Mary. I find it highly unlikely that Jake has 59 friends that all want to jump on the hate bandwagon. That post probably has more likes simply because more people agree with it than the first post.

More proof against your thought. I'm HARDLY a popular person on these boards and I'm sure some of you know that. But I still get likes if I post something intelligent that people agree with. People are far more likely to "like" a good post than to band together to like a post attacking the person because they don't like them personally. But the act of doing so still is far less hurtful than the same number of people who liked the attacker instead disliking the first poster.

That is their other accounts 99.8% of the time.

Prove it. You can't.

Your analysis of that thread is also flawed and biased.