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Missing "like" option

Because it's your own post. I've never been able to emote on my own posts here, or anywhere else really.

Edit: Reddit is one example where the opposite is true, but I don't like talking about that place anymore :)
 
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Yeah, I've never seen a case on here where it was allowed to like/react to our own posts.
I think that at least used to be something you could do on Facebook, but I haven't used it in several years so I don't know if that's current.
Most sites make it so you're unable to react to your own posts, especially somewhere like this that relies on a rating system.
 
AngelWitch said:
Sometimes I wonder if anybody has reported their own post and if it made sense at the time to do so!
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I have wondered the same thing!

I have clicked the report button totally by accident a few times, and I hope nothing happened because I didn't file an actual report. I hope I didn't get someone in trouble who was totally innocent lol
 
Yes, members can and do report their own posts.
After reviewing them, we generally take appropriate actions on them.
 
Luca said:
especially somewhere like this that relies on a rating system.
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Does it? I kinda like the icons as a way to show someone support for example, but other than that I don't see that ratings are a key feature of this site. Am I missing something? Do you use them in a different way to me? I mean, I don't ever pay any attention to the numbers in someone's profile thing. "Points" don't seem to have any real significance.
 
tazz said:
Does it? I kinda like the icons as a way to show someone support for example, but other than that I don't see that ratings are a key feature of this site. Am I missing something? Do you use them in a different way to me? I mean, I don't ever pay any attention to the numbers in someone's profile thing. "Points" don't seem to have any real significance.
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Oh, I didn't mean rating as in a "numbers" thing, just that you can rate/react to posts. I should've phrased that better. "Reaction system" was probably a better phrase.

I also basically just use the ratings to show support. I think the ones I use the most are "friendly" and "agree."

I haven't yet figured out the significance of the point system at all, if there is any.
 
tazz said:
Does it? I kinda like the icons as a way to show someone support for example, but other than that I don't see that ratings are a key feature of this site. Am I missing something? Do you use them in a different way to me? I mean, I don't ever pay any attention to the numbers in someone's profile thing. "Points" don't seem to have any real significance.
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I use them as a simple way to acknowledge to someone that I read their post and thought about it in some way.

I’m always looking for ways to do things without words. Words are hard sometimes.
 
Rodafina said:
I use them as a simple way to acknowledge to someone that I read their post and thought about it in some way.

I’m always looking for ways to do things without words. Words are hard sometimes.
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Yes, that too. Sometimes I'm too overwhelmed to write a long reply, so I will just give someone a "friendly" reaction so they know I thought about it and noticed it.
I try to never leave anything I read unquoted or not reacted to in some way (unless I felt that it was deliberately not nice, in which case I will not acknowledge it at all.)
 
*Correction: anything I read that was specifically directed at me. I don't think I have the time to read every single post on this forum and react to it lol

Phrasing seems to be difficult for me this morning.
 
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