Why limit upvotes?

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I’ve recently hit a limit to the amount upvotes. Really? Why do this?

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I think it is because we have trust levels so the amount you like is counted, I am assuming it is put in place so people just don’t spam to hit a trust level they don’t deserve or something.

wish they would get rid of it though, the world needs more love.

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Because some people just want to see this world burn

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And if you really want to keep going just switch characters to get more.

Everything forum related is character based and not account based now.

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Good to know. Thanks for your reply!

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It’s also feels odd because you can like your own posts with your alts. I discovered this by accident.

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Gated content?

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Because a unified population is dangerous. I remember when they made upvotes illegal in the good ole’ USSR.

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As Hàlfpînt mentioned, it’s probably because of Trust Levels. One of the ways you go up in levels is by the amount of times you like something. If we were given unlimited, that would be an easy way to gain them, and Discourse (the ones who created this forum software) probably didn’t want that.

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I find it incredibly frustrating as well. Esp. when some of these mega threads pop up. Even at trust lvl 3 I get capped.

I’m spending time reading thru 1,000 post treads and I have no way to interact with them unless I want to spam post in them.

It feels like running out of mana on a large trash pull and having to stop and drink before the boss, but the tank pulls anyway…

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I would have ‘liked’ the OPs post which I agree with, but there might be something better to like later today.

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And this is why it feels like a poor design. The forum allows these massive threads and where it’s so easy for things to get overlooked. I’m sure quite a few of us skip over comments that have maybe only a few likes because there’s an overwhelming amount of stuff to read. One of the requirements is to simply be on the forum reading. To do that all you have to do is just scroll through until the blue dots disappear. No actual participation or reading needed.

I’m not against the current format, for the most part, but I do see some glaring flaws.

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Makes you stop and think: do I really like this :thinking:

Bah can’t defend blizzard on this one. Unlimited likes should just be a thing.

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Likes don’t really add anything to anything in my book. I guess it gives the person you liked a notification and shows your “vote” so to speak, but if you like say 100 things in a large thread… What does that do? I don’t know.

Now discussion is different. I can grab part of one post, make a reply, grab part of another post, reply to it and so on in one response and it shows something. Mix with a few likes if I don’t need to really reply. Once again though, going overboard for me with trying to reply to too many people would lose it’s purpose.

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Even at the highest there is still a limit ):

I rarely reach it though anymore, so it doesn’t really matter now.

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Yeah, probably they really don’t - its probably more of keeping myself engaged in the thread thing… like when you read a book (or ebook I guess) and underline/highlight something that resonates with you.

It gives a facade of interactivity. Just find it less engaging reading 3000 posts on a topic when I can’t at least send an upvote.

Also, I guess it feels good to see someone liked something you said, so its a way of sort of pinging good vibes to someone you agree with.

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I agree with you about sending good vibes. I also sometimes throw out some likes in a thread that I know is just a bunch of bickering so I stay out of that, but I show the poster support. I just don’t give out very many.

For a really large thread I’ll read some at the beginning, but I usually skip to the last 24 hours of responses and start engaging there (the middle from past days are usually either the same people from today or it’s kind of repetitive) or I will just make my own stance based on the OP itself instead of getting into the nitty gritty as it might color my response. Just those little things that I find help me though, not necessarily anyone else. If I give a like though it’s more meaningful to me personally this way. It’s the only way I can take it even a bit seriously when there is no opposite vote.

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I’d say this sentiment is a prime example of why there is a cap, because slap-happy people want to tag everything they agree with, rather than reserving them for recognition of meaningful and insightful contributions. In these portal whinges, someone posts

don't reply to that guy, he's just a troll!

and it gets 10 likes. :roll_eyes:

I’m rather judicious with mine; 2.5k received, 574 given.

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If you “like” posts criticising Blizzard’s decisions your likes dwindle fast.
I’ve just woken and sat down to browse the forums after being offline for over 12 hours, liked TWO POSTS, and on the second i got the message, “you have reached the maximum number of likes, please wait 5 hours before trying again.”

This is ridiculous. In five hours I’ll be able to like one more post.

It’s all recorded, what posts you’ve liked, you can see who has liked your own posts. This is all just manipulation, learned from the Chinese, on how to direct and control public discussion. I’m glad Americans love freedom too much to be cowed by practices imported from dictatorships.

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Why do they have “trust” levels?

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