Like Button
 

Dear fellow Paxers,
We have introduced a 'Like' button to all the forums. Which should appear at the bottom, right hand end of posts. This is to bring us a bit more up to date with other discussion sites. I am very pleased to see this as I have often wanted to agree with a post but not clog up with short messages.

Many forums have a "dislike" button, too. :O

Really DRUK? Nobody in PRRuNe ever dislikes anybody or their posts - as you well know. Really the very idea is shocking and I've let the CC know they are not to serve you pudding at dinner.

Selling my Like to the highest bidder.

They're trialling it in Jet Blast.... :ok:

Jet Blast generally trials everything to the bitter end with no survivors ...

Been available on FlyerTalk [another IB forum] for ages with no grief. I'm just not seeing the option on the Forums I use.

Yes. Each company implements features in their own way. What we have is what we have. Not ideal but we Mods think it is better than nothing. As you may know, we Mods are independent and do this because we enjoy it. I have the smallest responsibility which is the 'Cabin' and I don't have authority in any other forum. For the most part, I avoid Jet Blast!! Sometimes regulars in here ask me questions or voice concerns about other forums in PPRuNe and that is fine, glad to help if I can.

check Problems and queries - the Mods are keeping people posted there

.....and no conclusion.

Is this what you had in mind?:}
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....90afde6ada.png

Does the person with the most likes win a prize ? :)

A thread named after them on Jet Blast I'll bet

In that case, I don't want any likes. That sounds like a punishment.

but fame! Fame !! FAME!!!!

put it in your CV!

I am delighted that the Cabin is taking this subject so seriously.

Nobody is interested in my CV...and that includes ME.

Regarding the "Like" button. Good stuff, I have often wanted to send an appreciation but didn't feel it was worth cluttering up the forum with it and so usually refrained.

I do feel that the "Like" reporting leaves a little to be desired. Hope you don't mind me sticking my oar in, of course feel free to ignore me completely:-)

I disliked the bold "The following NN users liked this post by XXX:" so much that I made a browser filter for it and I don't see it. There does need to be something there though if only for new users.

Suggestion - Make the text much shorter and much less prominent. For example just make it say "Likes: NN", or "NN Likes". Change the font to not bold. Put it at the top left of the box, to me it looks weird floating in the middle.

2.
I don't like the prominence of the actual likes field relative to the rest. My eyes keep getting drawn to it.

Suggestions -

A. Most user names are mostly lower case and so the blue text is maybe OK. Does two spaces after the comma work, doesn't work on pPrune messages I don't think?

B. I think the date is FAR too prominent. I would just do away with it. If you like it then use a smaller font (because the digits are effectively capitals). Get rid of the brackets. Maybe just have month and year? Maybe consider a softer colour, but there are probably enough colours already.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a8b933c4b4.png

Following from my last post here is another aviation forum I sometimes look at.

The likes reporting (and perhaps all controls) are much more discrete. I think this makes it easier to read the posts.

https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/comm.../#post-3314940

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....16d06e6721.png

Rather than "dislike" perhaps a "disagree" button might be a little softer? :)

Am I missing something?
I only see the 'Like' button on a very few threads (such as this one).

Its being trained on hard threads like Australia and rotorcraft I beleive

if they can understand it the rest of us will

I don't even see the 'Like' button on this thread. Is that because I'm new, or has it disappeared already? Was the experiment really that short?

Hello, Pip Pip, and welcome to the cabin. I do not know if the Like is only available to those who have passed the "I'm new here" winning post. Please do stay around to find out!

Thanks S.o.S. I will stick around...

The delayed introduction of the 'Like' button does have an amusing effect where the profiles of longer-standing Pruners are concerned. The first time I saw giants of the forum with >10,000 posts next to their name and zero Likes, I thought to myself 'tough crowd'.

But, truth be told, I liked that there were no Likes. Before I joined up, part of me hoped that the 'Like' button had always been available to members, but that nobody had ever felt the need to overtly express their approval in this manner. Simpler times...

I'm not seeing the like button on many threads - but no doubt the march of progress will see to that

It is true, Pip Pip, that as soon as we saw your registration - we knew your posts were going to be liked. :ok: You will also find a level of 'joshing' in here - but always polite. Non polite gets you turfed out onto the wing.

Logged in but I have yet to see a like button on any posts? What am I doing wrong?

Hello herostratus. Just to show that we do not discriminate against our antipodal cousins. Welcome to the Cabin, on the basis that I do not recall seeing your name on the passenger list. Apologies if you have been overlooked.

Hi, I am new to the forum but have been following the Ukraine war since the start and I am having the same problem as Herostratus, I cannot see the "like" button on any forums. I am mostly a lurker but from time to time would like to acknowledge someones post. Do I need to do something to enable the button?

Hello talby33 and welcome to the Cabin of PPRuNe.

We have limits on new accounts to ward off 'Bots' placing adverts and scams before we (the Moderators) have time to kick them out the door. Please respond to a post with a helpful comment and, perhaps a related experience of yours. In short order you will have posted enough for us to know that you are real and the restrictions are then lifted.

By all means use the 'Odds n Sods' thread to introduce yourself. Have you been lurking for long? Are you Pax or 'trade' staff?

Thanks SOS, sorry I am not air staff in any way, it's just that this is the best place I've found to follow the events in Ukraine. I'll see if I can find some useful comments to make. Slava Ukraini.