I'm all out of love. (likes) ❤

[Gryphonknight]

Kobayashi Maru

@SamMe

It’s probably a sign that I should learn how to manage my likes.

Unfortunately, even if you cheat, er, get promoted to moderator, it never goes away ( staff probably have unlimited likes )

Advice

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When you run out of likes

Take 24 hours off from the forum

Prioritize time sensitive, and active, topics and replies. This helps the whole forum ( see notes )

Use 10% to 25% of your daily likes for catching up on huge topics. I track these “catch up likes” using tally marks on a piece of paper. When you finish using your catch up likes, bookmark it and revisit the topic tomorrow

Tuesday is a good day to deliberately try to run out of likes. Or use 50 likes in a 24 hour period ( we don’t need no stinking badges… but they are cool )

In extreme cases, add a “+1 ( will delete when my likes refresh )” comment as a reply, then delete it when you can like the original comment ( keep your forum neat )

Notes

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Trust Level

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Regular* only gets +25 compared to Member ( see table ).

Trust Levels

Level	label	x likes	likes	x votes	votes
0	new	x1	50	x0.2	2
1	basic	x1	50	x1	10
2	member	x1.5	75	x2	20
3	Regular*	x2	100	x3	30
4	leader	x3	150	x4	40

* = Trust level 3 - Regular - is the only trust level that must be maintained, or drops to trust level 2 - member.

Merged Topics

Use your likes, especially for frequently merged topics

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Summarize button

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Topic Summaries: The feature where Discourse summarizes long topics is heavily influenced by how much each post is liked

I love the summarize button.

This also works with the summarize filter:

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Filter by user

@Guvnor

Step 3: hit the “X posts in this topic” and it will filter those posts by that user.

If you want to read before, or after, a filtered post, you can look up the actual post number

In the above example it is @zephyr1 9/9 post in the topic. But by clicking the link button, it displays the actual post is #128.

This allows you to go to post #128 and then scroll up or down.

You can also hit refresh page on your web browser, but sometimes that will move you to a random post further up the topic.

So if you are using the summarize filter, clicking the link button will tell you the actual post number.

Most times refresh page will also work, but sometimes not.

FIN