No Likes on DW

[thesehalcyondays]

My default reaction to reading a post on here is wanting to like it, but it looks like there’s no option for doing so here. I guess that pushes people to actually comment on posts here? I really wish I could like a post though bc that way at least if I don’t have something to say I can at least let OP know that I read their post. *shrug* I guess I’ll just do my best to interact via comments.

Comments

[thornsilver]

You can always post a comment saying "I agree". Or, maybe, an emoticon?

[thesehalcyondays]

That’s very true! Maybe a “+❤️” would do.

[misteriosa]

yeah, i really miss the like button too :( although in a way it's nice reaching out that bit more to interact. makes me think i need to do better with comments on pfio!

[horizonofstars]

was going to say this, too!

[thesehalcyondays]

I’m definitely going to be trying my best to interact more whenever PF comes back.

[yourlibrarian]

Agree with the emoticon idea, or, just as on AO3 when people have already left kudos you can always leave a written like such as "Kudos!"

I also miss the like feature here. One thing I've done for my own posts is to utilize the polling feature as a kudos box, but the polls are part of a paid account.

[thesehalcyondays]

Ooh I didn’t know people did that in AO3. That’s a good alternative to wanting to give more kudos.

[kara_mckay]

The explanations I'm most often given for no "likes" on DW is that it encourages commenting and discourages popularity contest behavior. And, that's nice, but having the ability to "like" or give kudos doesn't actually seem to have much to do with how much people comment, and I'm at a loss as to what these popularity contests are or where they're happening. The inability to "like" on DW is the number one reason why I ended up moving entirely to PF.

[thesehalcyondays]

Sometimes a post doesn’t lend itself to being commented on, but having a like option is like letting the OP know that they’re not talking into the void. I haven’t seen anything like a popularity contest that you mentioned either.

[beesknees]

I miss them a lot too. Am generally low spoons, and worrying I'll bungle actual words (whether commenting on someone else's post or replying to someone's comments on mine) is a bandwidth killer when all I really want to express is "solidarity!"

[thesehalcyondays]

Yeah sometimes I won’t have the energy to comment and will like a post, then come back to it later to comment. The likes system I feel is a nice way to, like you said, to show solidarity.

[arthur_p_dent]

“Liked” :)