I think this is a great idea. It makes soliciting feedback easier, and honestly, anything that makes you feel like you're being paid attention to makes people more likely to stay with a service and be productive.
Most of the comments here seem to be about how people don't want it called "like" and how they don't want to have clutter on their reading list.
Easy fixes? Have it be opt-in to put it on the post (a checkbox on the posting page), and have it be "kudos" or "nod" (as in giving a nod to someone) or something similar...and when someone clicks the kudos button, don't do anything to the post or how it's formatted or anything: just send a notice to the OP.
I don't think that the original requester here is asking for an exact implementation of the Facebook like feature: with the reposting on your 'wall' of what you liked or a listing on the original post of who liked it. It just sounds like they're asking for an easy way to get the same thing as the anonymous "I read this!" poll...without having to fight with the posting page to put one on all the time.
...I honestly don't understand why so many folks are opposed to this. Are you opposed to people putting anonymous "I read this!" polls at the end of their posts? Isn't this just asking for a shortcut to do the same thing?
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Most of the comments here seem to be about how people don't want it called "like" and how they don't want to have clutter on their reading list.
Easy fixes? Have it be opt-in to put it on the post (a checkbox on the posting page), and have it be "kudos" or "nod" (as in giving a nod to someone) or something similar...and when someone clicks the kudos button, don't do anything to the post or how it's formatted or anything: just send a notice to the OP.
I don't think that the original requester here is asking for an exact implementation of the Facebook like feature: with the reposting on your 'wall' of what you liked or a listing on the original post of who liked it. It just sounds like they're asking for an easy way to get the same thing as the anonymous "I read this!" poll...without having to fight with the posting page to put one on all the time.
...I honestly don't understand why so many folks are opposed to this. Are you opposed to people putting anonymous "I read this!" polls at the end of their posts? Isn't this just asking for a shortcut to do the same thing?