Purpose of "Like" button

[Johaandr]

What are the Purpose of "Like" button on this forum?

[HeulGDarian]

What are the Purpose of "Like" button on this forum?

Its to give people a sense of accomplishment , that yes your bad ideas are indeed shared with others .

[Johaandr]

Its to give people a sense of accomplishment , that yes your bad ideas are indeed shared with others .

Wouldnt that make u deluded for tthinking bad ideas are indeed shared with others? I do come across bad ideas being good ideas tho.
If it so much gives people sense of accomplishments... wont it just make that person ego bit much? Blinded by their own deluded justice? or just being right? or douchy right but at the same time wrong?

[HeulGDarian]

Wouldnt that make u deluded for tthinking bad ideas are indeed shared with others? I do come across bad ideas being good ideas tho.
If it so much gives people sense of accomplishments... wont it just make that person ego bit much? Blinded by their own deluded justice?

its the internet dude. Quality control is not even on the list.

[Johaandr]

its the internet dude. Quality control is not even on the list.

I am aware of that :-)

[Jandor]

To show that you like someones post. Fairly self-explanatory.

[Tint]

The community team reads the forum and gives the feedback of the playerbase to the devs in JP.

The like button helps them to determine what the community does or does not want. It's easier for them to see a post with a hundred likes instead of reading through 100 posts wich are all saying the same.

You also get some shiny medals above your avatar picture for providing and recieving likes.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

The community team reads the forum and gives the feedback of the playerbase to the devs in JP.

The like button helps them to determine what the community does or does not want. It's easier for them to see a post with a hundred likes instead of reading through 100 posts wich are all saying the same.

You also get some shiny medals above your avatar picture for providing and recieving likes.

Is that how that works? I always assumed it was just based on post counts.

Don't think it goes beyond 6 gold medals either way.

[JohnSpawnVFX]

Is that how that works? I always assumed it was just based on post counts.

Don't think it goes beyond 6 gold medals either way.

It's some cryptic ratio between post count and like count, at least according to some older users.

I've seen posters with double my post count, and less gold medals

[worldofneil]

Is that how that works? I always assumed it was just based on post counts.

Don't think it goes beyond 6 gold medals either way.

I did some research on this in 2018 (see this thread here) so I'm just going to copy a lot of that post here to save time.

Basically the medals are made up of two parts. The left hand side appears to represent your total likes (the filename is called "kin" although that just translates to money/gold) and it is display by 0 to 3 gold medals. The right hand side is actually a single image and is representative of your post count (post rank is literally in the filename for those images):



Unfortunately as far as I know there's no way for us to even see the total likes we've received, let alone see someone elses, so I've never managed to work out exactly how the likes translate into the 0 to 3 medals. I did try to setup an experiment with a random person (mentioned in the thread above), but unfortunately there was never enough data to really work anything out.

The post count however was much easier to work out:

Rank 1: 1 -> 9
Rank 2: 10 -> 19
Rank 3: 20 -> 29
Rank 4: 30 -> 49
Rank 5: 50 -> 99
Rank 6: 100 -> 249
Rank 7: 250 -> 499
Rank 8: 500 -> 999
Rank 9: 1000 -> 1999
Rank 10: 2000+

I hope this is of some help!