PSA For Those Afraid To Like Posts

[JohannesDau]

@Omnipotent

It’s not going to hurt you to like another persons post. A biased opinion on people is counter intuitive to progress.

I think we clearly are on the same page with the “Like the content, not the people” thing.

@Omnipotent

We are all connected and we all want the same thing.

A forum helping TU grow the best it can, a friendly and welcoming community having fun and discussions leading to rational conclusions with everyone respectfully arguing according to the forum rules? At least that’s my goal here.

@Omnipotent

Are you saying it’s actually painful for you to like someones post and not ever receive anything in return?

You mentioned the worst case scenario in your opinion would be not to get a like in return which is the Like4Like mentality. I mentioned my worst case scenario is nothing happening (and that the way I phrased this would sound depressing in my opinion), meaning the author of the liked post doesn’t appreciate it, the forum software cannot use the like to determine post quality, generally no one cares about the like given, it’s just an entry in a database, in short: Nothing happens.

So when you’re asking me if it would be painful for me to like without being liked back, that applies to the scenario you mentioned as the worst that could happen, not mine.

It might be the summer heat but for some reason in your statements that are not protesting the idea you’d support Like4Like or agreeing with me on how Like-Buddies are a problem, you sometimes sound like someone should expect something to magically happen in return for likes. Likes should only go in one direction and when everyone contributes with good posts, everyone can be on the beneficiary side.

@Omnipotent

I was simply trying to point out a fact about human nature.

IIRC that fact was the idea that people tend to like people they’re liked by? So you were trying to point out how this natural impulse is counterproductive for the like-system in a way I completely misinterpreted?

@Omnipotent

I said exactly what I mean.

That’s the reason we both take about an hour to write one of these posts, isn’t it?

@anon68632391

This topic got waaay too big.

When you go into detail and really flesh each side of the argument out, discussions go big. And when everyone stays on track and no one starts insulting so the mods close the thread, rational conclusions are found. I’m really happy when that happens.

But sometimes something like this happens, just to name one example:

Hi, i'm an sjw

Hello, The only probable reasons you clicked on this was either cause you have some sort of hate for SJWs or you are trying to find people that don’t hate SJWs. Or maybe you don’t know what SJW is. So to start of it means “Social Justice Warrior”. Which is not even a real thing. It’s a insult created by people who get called out on racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism and such. They use this as a way to ignore your arguments and push your points aside as meaningless. Politically Cor…

A great exchange about what an SJW is, what it stands for and how much sense it makes. Until people cry for the thread to die ironically being the sole reason the thread has to be closed.