I've noticed, through my own experimentation, that one like does not actually equal 1 on that number.
I went back to an ancient post, gave it a like, and when I refreshed the number of "likes" had rocketed up by like. 76. I removed the like and it went back down to before I had liked it. So there's some forgery afoot.
I never did anything about it because, well what am i gonna do? So the site owners used distasteful methods to make things look better than they are. I don't like it, but I understand it.
A community doesn't foster around a ton of posts with 1-3 likes each. That's an empty site. Presumably, whoever added that feature, could have been all the way back when Zeus was here for all i know, added it to make the site feel more "lived". More active. Lest cold and empty.
It's terrible, disingenuous, and disappointing. Bit I, don't actually think the feature needs removed. Just rebranded. It's lying to call them all likes, instead call it something akin to "like rating", so that the expectation isn't a 1:1. That way the site still feels lives, but not disingenuously.
That is, of course, assuming that's what's happening.
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I can't unsee it now
I went back to an ancient post, gave it a like, and when I refreshed the number of "likes" had rocketed up by like. 76. I removed the like and it went back down to before I had liked it. So there's some forgery afoot.
A community doesn't foster around a ton of posts with 1-3 likes each. That's an empty site. Presumably, whoever added that feature, could have been all the way back when Zeus was here for all i know, added it to make the site feel more "lived". More active. Lest cold and empty.
It's terrible, disingenuous, and disappointing. Bit I, don't actually think the feature needs removed. Just rebranded. It's lying to call them all likes, instead call it something akin to "like rating", so that the expectation isn't a 1:1. That way the site still feels lives, but not disingenuously.
That is, of course, assuming that's what's happening.