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Emma Goldsmith 
Spain
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Member (2004)
Spanish to English
| Good example of why a like button is definitely missing | Jul 12, 2013 |
Max Deryagin wrote: János Untener wrote:
The negative effects of likes/upvotes/agrees you see on social media sites:
The objectivity of the posts immediately declines
Witty but pointless one-liners appear
People start wasting their time checking their likes
And most importantly: "liking" something does not add plus content
This is a professional site and I see no professional reason why they should implement it.
What's next? Poking your colleagues? Spot on. Whoever knows what Reddit is will definitely dislike the idea.
Max, just imagine, you could have simply clicked on "like" for János' post, and saved a lot of space
| | | | Balasubramaniam L.
India
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Member (2006)
English to Hindi
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SITE LOCALIZER | I like the idea | Jul 12, 2013 |
Many times you read a post and enjoy it, but have nothing to comment on it or add to it. In such cases, there is no way in the current dispensation to show that the post did not go unnoticed or unread but was read and enjoyed.
Often times, important ideas are expressed in these posts and which hecklers shoot down by picking on it with inane comments. If there were a Like button and people use it, then the hecklers would have a hard time plying their business on this site and this wo... See more Many times you read a post and enjoy it, but have nothing to comment on it or add to it. In such cases, there is no way in the current dispensation to show that the post did not go unnoticed or unread but was read and enjoyed.
Often times, important ideas are expressed in these posts and which hecklers shoot down by picking on it with inane comments. If there were a Like button and people use it, then the hecklers would have a hard time plying their business on this site and this would improve the quality of the discussions.
Having said that, in addition to the Like button, there should also be a Don't Like button, to further amplify the positive impact of this feature.
I would go a few further steps and propose a Like (and Don't Like) buttons also for threads, in addition to the posts in them.
In the case of threads, this function is indirectly performed by the statistics showing how many times it was viewed, but Like and Don't Like buttons for them would provide a more accurate feeling of how the thread was received by prozians. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Kay Denney
France
Local time: 06:00
French to English
| Don't like... | Jul 12, 2013 |
Balasubramaniam L. wrote:
Many times you read a post and enjoy it, but have nothing to comment on it or add to it. In such cases, there is no way in the current dispensation to show that the post did not go unnoticed or unread but was read and enjoyed.
Often times, important ideas are expressed in these posts and which hecklers shoot down by picking on it with inane comments. If there were a Like button and people use it, then the hecklers would have a hard time plying their business on this site and this would improve the quality of the discussions.
Having said that, in addition to the Like button, there should also be a Don't Like button, to further amplify the positive impact of this feature.
I would go a few further steps and propose a Like (and Don't Like) buttons also for threads, in addition to the posts in them.
In the case of threads, this function is indirectly performed by the statistics showing how many times it was viewed, but Like and Don't Like buttons for them would provide a more accurate feeling of how the thread was received by prozians.
I don't like the idea of a Don't like button, I think it's a good way to make enemies.
I wouldn't mind a Like button, or an Agree button.
Do people spend time counting their likes? I notice sometimes on FB that people have "liked" a comment of mine but no way would I be checking all the time!
And for those who vote against it, nobody will make you use it!
[Edited at 2013-07-12 17:52 GMT]
| | | | Michael Beijer
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:00
Member (2009)
Dutch to English
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| How about a HELL YEAH! button instead? | Jul 12, 2013 |
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Michael Beijer wrote: Michael
Love it!
There's a "recommend" button (which is the same thing as the "like" button, according to facebook) just above the forum, but it's for the entire forum, not a single post. There's the "share" option just about the "post reply" buttons too.
Maybe something like the "agree" button in kudoz?
[Edited at 2013-07-12 20:01 GMT]
| | | | AnnaSCHTR
United States
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I am really not sure it is such a great idea. This is a forum for professional linguists. Surely we can express ourselves in a little more thoughtful way than by clicking on a button, or by LOLs and AFAIKs. There is a place for these things, but perhaps not here. If you agree with something, why don't you say why? And if you have nothing to say, why... well, never mind.
| | | | Kay Denney
France
Local time: 06:00
French to English
| Nobody's making you hit a Like button. | Jul 14, 2013 |
AnnaSCHTR wrote:
I am really not sure it is such a great idea. This is a forum for professional linguists. Surely we can express ourselves in a little more thoughtful way than by clicking on a button, or by LOLs and AFAIKs. There is a place for these things, but perhaps not here. If you agree with something, why don't you say why? And if you have nothing to say, why... well, never mind.
It's for when all you have to say is "I like what this person has said", or "I agree with this person because that's exactly what I think".
The point is that if there's disagreement over a particular issue, it could be that A keeps on and on bringing out more arguments and telling points, but in fact everybody else agrees with B's single argument for the other side.
Here, various reasons have been cited for not having a Like button. Those in favour have simply said that they feel the need for it. If there were a Like button, we could simply all click on "Like" the first time that someone says "If there were a Like button I'd be hitting it now", and Proz staff would see at a glance that for each person trotting out an argument against, there are so many people saying they are for. It's a way of gauging what the "silent majority" think: people who don't necessarily have tons of arguments to bring to the discussion and who often say nothing but who may well feel strongly nonetheless.
As I said previously, nobody's making you hit a Like button.
[Edited at 2013-07-15 08:36 GMT]
| | | | philgoddard
United States
German to English
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TOPIC STARTER | I never got a reply to this post. | Nov 18, 2013 |
Are you reading this, ProZ staff?
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Melanie Meyer
United States
Local time: 00:00
Member (2010)
English to German
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| Quick comments | Nov 18, 2013 |
Samuel Murray wrote:
What I would find useful is the ability to write very short comments, i.e. "quick comments". One can place a character limit on such comments (say, 100 characters), and integrate it into the thread layout so that it doesn't interfere with the flow of the conversation (e.g. let it appear directly under the post that it refers to, in smaller font. Have a rule (hope it gets enforced) that you're not allowed to reply to quick comments by adding more quick comments.
I agree that such a feature ("enhanced" or modified like/comment button) would be useful.
| | | | P.L.F. Persio
Netherlands
Local time: 06:00
Member (2010)
English to Italian
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| Hell why not | Nov 20, 2013 |
You got my vote, Phil.
| | | | Oliver Walter
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:00
German to English
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| Encourage them not to waste space | Nov 20, 2013 |
Emma Goldsmith wrote:
Far too much space is taken up in threads by people quoting an entire post just to write "I agree" underneath it. Yes, I do not like to see a reply that quotes an entire post (in some cases many lines in length) and then says "I agree", or even nothing.
Example of better practice: I have deleted part of Emma's post in this reply to it. I suspect some people are not sufficiently aware, when they reply to a post, that they can edit the quote of the post to which they are replying. Perhaps the ProZ page in which the reply is written should (if the quoted post is more than a certain length) include a large-font reminder that they can, and should, remove irrelevant parts before composing and posting the reply, with a link to some information on how to do the edit, for those who aren't sure.
I don't much "like" the idea of a "like" button but I suppose it would be useful for members to be able to express a reaction to a post without taking much space. Appropriate buttons might be, for example, "Agree" (already mentioned), "Disagree", "Important information" and perhaps a couple of others. Then: how should these reactions be displayed? I think perhaps as counts of the totals, with the names of the members selecting each of the reactions - I expect anonymous "Agrees", "Disagrees", "Likes" etc could too easily be misused.
Oliver
| | | | Sheila Wilson
Spain
Local time: 05:00
Member (2007)
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| COMMENT button? | Nov 20, 2013 |
Perhaps we could have for a "comment" button. This could then bring up a choice of like, dislike, agree, thanks,..., together with another option to post a short comment referring to selected text.
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Yaotl Altan
Mexico
Local time: 22:00
Member (2006)
English to Spanish
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philgoddard wrote:
I often read forum posts that make me think, or laugh, or both, and it would be nice to express my appreciation for them without necessarily posting a response.
I just did a search to see if this question had been asked already, and while I didn't find it, I did find lots of posts saying words to the effect of "If there were a Like button, I'd be pressing it now."
What do you think?
I like the idea, and not only that. I think we could share important info via Twitter or FB if we had icons on the posts.
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Sheila Wilson wrote:
Perhaps we could have for a "comment" button. This could then bring up a choice of like, dislike, agree, thanks,..., together with another option to post a short comment referring to selected text.
I like this idea.
| | | | Jessica Noyes
United States
Local time: 00:00
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Spanish to English
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| Support the idea of a comment button | Feb 9, 2014 |
I like Sheila's idea of a comment button.
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