Smf2.1: Should 'Likes' received by users be countable?

[albertlast]

Description

The exsting table and programm logic allow to count the person how liked something,
but the existing system didn't allow to count the amount of receiving likes.

related issue: https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF2.1/issues/5161

Problem is that we got also a stats site where print the received likes,
but like i said the numbers are technical wrong atm.

I could image based on ~ two or three addiontal functions with integration hooks in subs.php,
we could fix the problem, but want we to do this?

[Arantor]

No, they shouldn’t, at least not in the core. If a mod wants to add that, sure, but not in core. It was by design that this wasn’t facilitated.

[Gwenwyfar]

Agreed. And it's not a very useful stat to have even if it were not easily misused.

[albertlast]

For me this are all social arguments,
which in my eyes not very good reasons.

Why is count by the core bad and by a mod good?
This is inconsistency for me.

[Gwenwyfar]

It's not working properly, we have no good reason to keep it, plus negative aspects to keeping it. Those are, together, a very good reason.

Core means it will always be enabled and people are very unlikely to disable it even if they do not need it/if it is causing havoc. On the other hand, by a mod only those who really need it will get it. That is, if anyone even thinks it's worthy to make a mod of.

If there was no difference to having things as core vs mods, we could as well dump all mods into core...

[albertlast]

I mention in the start of the issue,
that no central function exists to count the receiving like.

Based on this you can't buid a mod how add this core function,
so that other like system work correctly.

And likes are by default disabled,
core function -> can be disabled.

[Gwenwyfar]

No one is going to disable likes because they don't like the stats. You'd have to manually edit it out.

[albertlast]

This issue didn't had the topic if the likes are shown in the stats or not,
i talk about the core function is missing to count the likes.

[Gwenwyfar]

And you were also talking about the stats, which is what I'm commenting on...

[Arantor]

Mods can totally implement a function to do it even if it will be bad. Some people think it is a good idea but that doesn’t make them right, and a mod gives them the option to do it even if I think it’s wrong.

The proposal you have just means karma should have been left in, as it amounts to the same thing, reputational gaming and clique building.

[albertlast]

@Sesquipedalian can i close this?

[Sesquipedalian]

Sure.