[Uberguilds]

Originally Posted by Adrian Schneider

There's a huge overlap between this and the reputation system

I find that the reputation system is better suited as a game for people to rate an individual poster over time.

For example; The reputation I run is where an individual poster can give you +/- internets once. Reputation comments are then showed in that user's profile anonymously so everyone can read & laugh.

(Total: 105,976 Reputation Comments)
(Top: Erronius (352), EnigmaticParadigm (337), Alcestis (287), Zehn - Vhex (245), Wolfen (234), Ravvenn (228), Screamfeeder (226), Soygen (171), adebisi (166), Requiem (154))



The like system is completely different, because you are rating the post, if you like it, and the possibility of extending it to pull out the best posts per thread in some organizational fashion.

From just thinking about it, I would rather enjoy not only for users to mark a post they "like" but those that are "troll", "offtopic", "thanks" or any other describing word that allows further categorization/recognition. This can also branch off into a conscious system where users are labeling another user not only by their "perceived" persona but the actual content they post.

There are NUMEROUS times where people are asking admins to ban someone, yet those kids are the ones drawing the audience/discussion. Point being, there are many instances where what a user posts is more accepted than their persona; two separate entities.