Like Button

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<p>Hi Guys</p>

<p>This is an idea I just thought of and presumed it would be a great addition to College Confidential.
Facebook and Youtube have a similar forum aspect like CC. But those have a special feature that makes it more interactive. The Like/Thumbs Up button. I would find my CC experience to be a whole lot better if the developers could add a like button to each post on a thread.
I know this would be a drastic change but it would make CC more interactive.</p>

<p>So Ive made this thread so more and more people can support this notion. So please leave a post supporting this notion or opposing it. Hopefully a moderator or some other important person will see this and take it to higher authorities. </p>

<p>So please support this suggestion (im trying not to say movement). Make a new thread or I don't know do something to get this idea out there.</p>

<p>PS - I know this the wrong category but I didn't know which one to put this thread in. So I just chose the most popular one.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>Funny, I was thinking about exactly this a few days back. Let’s see what other have to say. Anyways, worth a try. I like the idea.</p>

<p>EDIT: Posted this thread in the college confidential cafe (<a href=“Like Button - College Confidential Community - College Confidential Forums”>Like Button - College Confidential Community - College Confidential Forums). Better suited there.</p>

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<p>iLike. iSupport. iSpam.</p>

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<p>Why does EVERTYHING need to be exactly like Facebook?</p>

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<p>Dislike.</p>

<p>Facebook is too much of a popularity contest these days. I’d prefer CC to remain informative, and information doesn’t need a “like” button.</p>

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<p>I support this proposition.</p>

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<p>b@r!lum - a like so you have more ways to do interact as opposed to just commenting.</p>

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<p>Why exactly do you need to interact when you have nothing to say?</p>

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<p>see like in this case if the like button was there, a couple of people would have liked your post and it would have been a better comeback as you would have had more backing!!</p>

<p>Ok tell me one thing. Why dont you want the change??</p>

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<p>This is not turning CC into fb.
Just where there is ‘Report Problem Post’ and ‘Reply’ there can be a ‘like’ tab.</p>

<p>For example, if in a thread someone gives a very valuable response or say, there’s a sarcastic remark (just an example), other viewers can like that reply. There would be no ‘Thumbs down’ button, just a ‘Thumbs up’ one.</p>

<p>CC would remain informative anyway. We’re not talking about implementing profile pics neither is everything turning into facebook. Just the introduction of a like button. </p>

<p>They can start it on a trial basis, try it out and then remove if they want to, hmm ?</p>

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<p>**** this
like button is a useless piece of **** and way too ****ing useless for the purpose you’re getting at - wait well that’s facebook related ohh</p>

<p>anyways, many forums already have what you’re describing, but it’s not as stupid as a “like” button. there’s a “was this post helpful” kind of feature at the bottom of each post. but the problem is, the people who run CC boards don’t like CC to look like other forums. they want CC to be as simple and minimalistic as possible. they even rejected support for a visible quote feature (you can still bbcode it though) because they thought it would muck up threads. I think it’s a semi-decent idea, but it will never happen</p>

<p>also, appropriate forum you might wanna try is at the bottom of the list
“Community & Forum Issues”</p>

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<p>Maybe we could call it a recommend button. I think about it every time I read CC, actually. I often wish I could recommend a post so I didn’t have to make a comment just to say “I agree with what X said.”</p>

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<p>I wanna poke people too</p>

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<p>

That’s why:

A ‘like’ button adds no informational content and it encourages a lot of garbage posts and popularity contests. (And no, a count of how many posters agree with a statement is not relevant to the types of conversations we have here because the vast majority of posters is not qualified to answer most questions. If you want to agree or disagree with a piece of advice, share your reasoning so that we can decide how much weight to give to your opinion.)</p>

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<p>^ I knew you were gonna read only that. THAT WAS AN EXAMPLE off the top of my head. What if there’s a good/informative post. You can like/recommend that.
Why do you keep saying this would turn out to be a popularity contest.</p>

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<p>ok so I see we are getting somewhere.
Don’t call it the like button call it a ‘good post’ or some sort of gauge to see the quality of a post.
I really like the ‘recommend’ button someone suggested.</p>

<p>Cummon CC!!</p>

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<p>For example, the NYT lets users recommend comments on news stories. When I finish reading a story and there are ten pages of comments, I don’t want to read every single one. I just choose the ones that are highly recommended and read those. Those ones are always the most well thought-out and insightful. The posts that aren’t recommended are often bizarre rants/conspiracy theories that have nothing to do with the topic. Recommending has nothing to do with a popularity contest (because who cares about popularity on a message board, especially one as boring as one about college admissions?) - it just lets you wade through the crap.</p>

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<p>Your a good man!!
Well put.</p>

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<p>I rather tag people in my threads. ;)</p>

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<p>Yeah this would be great then I would have statistical evidence for how awesome my posts are.</p>