I wish there were a "like" button

[Matt_Cohn]

Ran et al, is there any way to get that? It would be nice to show appreciation for a thoughtful post without cluttering up the thread.

[David Ober]

Was just thinking that the other day...

[Jeff_Brauer]

I agree.  Like or +1, Up, Down vote, etc.  Typing is sometimes too much trouble when you are goofing off at work.

[Jaeger Kovich]

Funny, Jack Dorsey is hoping to remove the Like button because it hinders more discussion.

[John Kavanaugh]

Hate the like button.

[Tommy Williamsen]

Hate the like button.

Think you'd get many?

[Tim_Weiman]

Hate the like button.

John,


I agree with you. Not a good fit for GCA IMO.


Overall, I think the quality of discussion is very good. We just don’t need that social media influence.

[John Kavanaugh]

Hate the like button.

Think you'd get many?

Yes and that is part of the problem. I’m like the King of likes. I eventually like people back and then they like me more. With each like our opinions converge until we end up saying the exact same thing. Just more of me to like. There is enough me already.

[Buck Wolter]

Hate the like button.

Think you'd get many?

Yes and that is part of the problem. I’m like the King of likes. I eventually like people back and then they like me more. With each like our opinions converge until we end up saying the exact same thing. Just more of me to like. There is enough me already.

+1

[Joe Bausch]

Hate the like button.

I like this post.

[Tim Leahy]

What is the Karma thing under the posters name?

[Jim Hoak]

I don't have an opinion on the Like Button, but I've been wondering for the longest time what that Karma thing is.  Glad it's been asked!!
Every other poster on this thread is +0/-0--except for me and I am +1/-0.  Is that good or bad for me?  I almost hate to ask.

[Brian_Ewen]

Have thought this for quite some time.


But from past experience, a down vote button is not a good idea, unless you want to really liven up the forum.

[John Crowley]

Hate the like button.

+1


That is a Facebook thing, right?
I don’t do Facebook.
And the “like” is one of several reasons I don’t.

[Colin Macqueen]

Gentlemen,


I could be wrong but from memory The Karma +0/- button/icon came into being when an update of the GCA platform was initiated by Ran.  It seemed to me that it was an addition which mimicked a similar button that used to be present on the Max's Lounge platform. On Max's Lounge it was not so much a like/not like indication of a thread more a public acknowledgement of kudos to that individual.
Cheers Colin.
P.S. No like here for a like button!

[David Ober]

Bringing this back up. We need a like button here.


In the "real world" of mass social media, I hate it, but here? In a cloistered group of fanatics? I think it's just what the doctor ordered.


Think knights 'round a table hammering their mugs o' ale on the table when something worthy is mentioned....

[Peter Pallotta]

Bringing this back up. We need a like button here.

In the "real world" of mass social media, I hate it, but here? In a cloistered group of fanatics? I think it's just what the doctor ordered.

Think knights 'round a table hammering their mugs o' ale on the table when something worthy is mentioned....

Or maybe think 1500 rating panelists. 10 ‘likes’ make the post a 10 on the GCA-Scale, a truly great post with no weak or poorly expressed sentiments and with unique ideas/concepts that can’t be found in any other post. Really good posts would get 7 or 8 or 9 ‘likes’ etc, and of course a post with 0 likes is probably one that should never have been written.
For my sake, I sure hope you guys have no bias against ‘template posts’ — cause that’s the only kind I write, over and over again regardless of the thread/setting/context.

[Forrest Richardson]

Just watch this and re-think your request:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccwfmGe5CDw

[David Ober]

Just watch this and re-think your request:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccwfmGe5CDw

I've seen it. Doesn't really apply in a closed group, IMHO.

[Matt_Cohn]

Just watch this and re-think your request:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccwfmGe5CDw

Still on board. I can think of a couple folks here who could use some reconditioning anyway.

[Steve Lapper]

How about we ask Ran for "Participation Medals" instead?

[John Kavanaugh]

I'm trying to understand what has motivated Mark Fine to start a series of oddly themed threads. A like button would only make them worse.

[Mark_Fine]

Thanks John     I will take that as another compliment     We rehash the same stuff on here over and over (when you have been on this site as long as I have I guess you see that). We have new participants so that is fine but most of the early participants have tired of it, get weary of the sucking up, and left but I have stuck around for the most part because sometimes there are still a few new and interesting topics.  No post will please everyone and my idea of a good one is to create thoughtful and civil debate.  Maybe we should all only start posts that we know will get all likes and everyone will agree on 

[Mark Fedeli]

Thanks John     I will take that as another compliment     We rehash the same stuff on here over and over (when you have been on this site as long as I have I guess you see that). We have new participants so that is fine but most of the early participants have tired of it, get weary of the sucking up, and left but I have stuck around for the most part because sometimes there are still a few new and interesting topics.  No post will please everyone and my idea of a good one is to create thoughtful and civil debate.  Maybe we should all only start posts that we know will get all likes and everyone will agree on 

Do you think there is a lot of participation among newer members? I've been here about 7 years, and at least in that time, it seems like the majority of posting is done by the same small-ish group of people now as then. Of course, if they are the ones putting in the work, that's fine, but there's also a good deal of clubbiness about it, where one person's posts will always get multiple replies while another's, even if it's similar in content, doesn't much get noticed. Perhaps that's because a lot of the newer people haven't met the older people in person. That in-person familiarity seems to be a big part of it.


This does have something to do with social media. I've become much closer with people on golf Twitter, much more quickly, than I've become close with anyone here. Identities are basically hidden here. There are no profiles, no way of knowing who anyone is or what their likes are outside of what they post. That creates a coldness, and a distance, and perhaps a reluctance for newer posters to join the fray. I'm not sure it's fair to expect newer posters to "earn" their attention either, when, as I said above, some people can toss off any leftover of a thought and get guaranteed engagement.


I've spent some time recently thinking about this subject and why golf architecture Twitter sometimes seems more fruitful for me. It probably isn't a like button, but it does have something to do with demystifying who everyone is. The ease of sharing media doesn't hurt either.

[David Ober]

Thanks John     I will take that as another compliment     We rehash the same stuff on here over and over (when you have been on this site as long as I have I guess you see that). We have new participants so that is fine but most of the early participants have tired of it, get weary of the sucking up, and left but I have stuck around for the most part because sometimes there are still a few new and interesting topics.  No post will please everyone and my idea of a good one is to create thoughtful and civil debate.  Maybe we should all only start posts that we know will get all likes and everyone will agree on 

Do you think there is a lot of participation among newer members? I've been here about 7 years, and at least in that time, it seems like the majority of posting is done by the same small-ish group of people now as then. Of course, if they are the ones putting in the work, that's fine, but there's also a good deal of clubbiness about it, where one person's posts will always get multiple replies while another's, even if it's similar in content, doesn't much get noticed. Perhaps that's because a lot of the newer people haven't met the older people in person. That in-person familiarity seems to be a big part of it.


This does have something to do with social media. I've become much closer with people on golf Twitter, much more quickly, than I've become close with anyone here. Identities are basically hidden here. There are no profiles, no way of knowing who anyone is or what their likes are outside of what they post. That creates a coldness, and a distance, and perhaps a reluctance for newer posters to join the fray. I'm not sure it's fair to expect newer posters to "earn" their attention either, when, as I said above, some people can toss off any leftover of a thought and get guaranteed engagement.


I've spent some time recently thinking about this subject and why golf architecture Twitter sometimes seems more fruitful for me. It probably isn't a like button, but it does have something to do with demystifying who everyone is. The ease of sharing media doesn't hurt either.

^^^^^LIKE