Quote from: UserU on June 25, 2021, 06:21:44 AM

Quote from: Quickseller on June 24, 2021, 01:22:50 AM

Quote from: Welsh on June 04, 2021, 01:16:13 PM

A like system would probably be okay, I don't see any major drawbacks, and maybe as a result of having a like button we will see less users giving merit because they agree with a post. Since, in my opinion a like system is completely different to the current merit system, which sometimes gets treated as the same by certain users.

A like system without limits on the number of likes that can be sent would result in people using sockpuppets giving likes to their alts. Look at this thread, someone has many accounts that were always logged in, why would you think that someone wouldn’t use zero post accounts to give many likes?

No doubt that is still abusable, but I think the likes wouldn't carry as much weight as the Merits though.

I mean, the person could always use sockpuppets but in the end the BS would still be smelled out by other members sooner or later.

I guess I would ask if there are many posts that deserve merit that have little to no merit? If so, the number of sMerit that sources have should be evaluated or the number of sources should be evaluated. I don’t think adding a “plus 1” would add much value. In addition to the potential for abuse I mentioned above.

Automating notifications to merit sources may also be a good idea as was suggested above by Welsh. Sources could set their own criteria as to who they are willing to receive notifications from.