As a newbie, I read many posts that has quality. After reading the posts I'll feel like to merit the post, but as a newbie, I might not have a sendable merit, I will have no option than to slide on.
Assuming there is an alternative to merit just like "Facebook like" along side merit, it would favour me.
One-liner - Not gonna happen.
But don't worry, you will get along with it.. give it a time. This is common every new member coming from other social media platforms carves for this option but trust me this "like" feature has peen proposed like gazillion times. and here are reason its hasn't been implemented. What you think when
theymos introduced this merit option would not he have thought of "like" option which is much simpler and easier to implement.
If you have noticed even Facebook somehow ditched this option with emotions. Also when you bring "like" button, automatically you need a "dislike" button and that brings additional many ifs and buts with it. So I guess this simple "merit" systems working fine for years and that's something exclusive to Bitcointalk. I guess only thing which we should not be asking for is "Where is the new forum software?".