Missing "like" option

[Au Naturel]

Did you just make the like button invisible on our own posts? Enquiring minds want to know.

 

[Slime_Punk]

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

 

[Au Naturel]

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

I swear I saw it on my posts before. I never checked it but I thought it was there.

 

[Luca]

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.

 

[Rodafina]

I swear I saw it on my posts before. I never checked it but I thought it was there.

Your eyes have been playing tricks on you!

You can report your own post, but you cannot react to it with emojis.

 

[Slime_Punk]

Sometimes I wonder if anybody has reported their own post and if it made sense at the time to do so!

 

[Luca]

Sometimes I wonder if anybody has reported their own post and if it made sense at the time to do so!

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

 

[Nitro]

Yes, members can and do report their own posts.
After reviewing them, we generally take appropriate actions on them.

 

[Crossbreed]

Sometimes I wonder if anybody has reported their own post and if it made sense at the time to do so!

I have reported my own OPs in the past to request that they be moved to a more appropriate sub-forum, etc....

 

[Slime_Punk]

I have reported my own OPs in the past to request that they be moved to a more appropriate sub-forum, etc....

Oh, that makes sense! Seems like a useful feature that I didn't even know about

 

[tazz]

especially somewhere like this that relies on a rating system.

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.

 

[Luca]

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.

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.

 

[Rodafina]

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.

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.

 

[Luca]

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.

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.)

 

[Luca]

*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.

 

[Tom]

Sometimes I wonder if anybody has reported their own post and if it made sense at the time to do so!

No but I once banned myself by accident when I was a moderator at a envirionmentalist forum.

 

[Userxx]

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.

Yes, Facebook still allows it, but almost everyone knows it is pointless.

 

[Au Naturel]

Yes, members can and do report their own posts.
After reviewing them, we generally take appropriate actions on them.

Wouldn't it be easier to just delete?

 

[Nitro]

Wouldn't it be easier to just delete?

No, sometimes they are just misplaced under the wrong topic, so there is no need to remove them.