Update: Please let me explain what I’d like to have one more time, I probably messed up my explanation. My post has been edited, and the new title doesn’t reflect the workflow I’m trying to build. I’m sorry, I changed it back. I understand all your suggestions, and they all would work if I were a teacher, maybe. But I’m a student. We’re using discourse for posting math problems, and it works wonderfully. I deployed it with the solved plugin, added a button that shows unsolved ones sorted by number of likes. The idea is to let us, students, to like problems even if they are our own topics. So this number can be a single metric the teacher can look at by clicking the unsolved button. When I post a problem, I, as a student, sometimes can see the ways I can make steps to solve a problem, and I just add it to discourse, but sometimes I can’t, and liking my own topic would increase this single metric, and the teacher would see this, and give us hints. This is the wokflow I’m trying to build. What I’m doing so far is posting problems from another account, but this only works for me, I can’t ask other participants to have a separate login for this. I’ve seen plugin writers here. How hard would it be to make one that lets us like our own posts? I’m not asking to do this for me, I’d just like to know how much effort it would take, because I’m going to support that discourse for a long time, and if it’s not hard, in the long run it’s worth writing. The original text: Is there a way to configure discourse so I can like my own topics? We use it for posting math problems and I’d like to be able to emphasize the most interesting ones. I should add that we have an unsolved button, that our teacher uses to see the most liked unsolved problems.

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[image] negaduck: I’d like to be able to emphasize the most interesting ones This was the intention behind the “pinned topics” feature. (Either pinned to the top of the category, or pinned across the whole site globally.) Since likes don’t by default show who the “likers” are, it wouldn’t really be much of a feature since many people could be liking posts.

[image] negaduck: emphasize the most interesting ones [image] anon48433008: add staff color Try out this suggestion, I’ve found it very effective (and striking). :slight_smile:

The problem is I’m a student, not a teacher. I post a lot of problems, but I’d like to highlight the most interesting or the hardest ones to me, to prioritize them.

I am guessing the teachers are staff? You won’t be able to add staff colour if you are not moderator. Perhaps you can flag or message staff about it they can add staff colour themselves? [image] negaduck: highlight the most interesting or the hardest ones to me, to prioritize them. Have you tried to bookmark?

I should’ve pointed out that I added an unsolved button, which sorts unsolved problems by number of likes. Yeah, I know, my request is weird, but this is our set-up so far.

[image] negaduck: but I’d like to highlight the most interesting or the hardest ones to me, to prioritize them That’s the function of bookmarks. I think that is exactly what bookmarks are for.

I’d recommend bookmarks as well. We have some changes in the pipe for those too. Stay tuned.

I’ve written an update to the original topic, trying to come up with a better explanation what workflow we’d like to have.

Oh, that’s a good option, thank you. Here’s the post on marketplace: [image] Liking own posts plugin shopping_cartMarketplace What would you like done? I’d like to be able to like my own posts. Motivation: And it is ok to opensource it, all github stars are yours. When do you need it done? It’s not urgent, a month is ok. What is your budget, in $ USD that you can offer for this task? I honestly have no idea how hard it would be to write this plugin and how much it could cost, I’m new here. How many hours would it take to make it?

I believe there is a plugin or theme component called something like Topic Ratings? That may help with what your trying to acheive [image] Topic Ratings Plugin Plugin A Discourse plugin that lets you use topics to rate things! Features Rate topics by a star rating system in the composer. Enable different rating types on a per-category or per-tag basis. Toggle rating count and average rating per rating type. Toggle visibility of ratings, counts and averages based on user roles. Bulk actions including rating type migration [screenshot] page_facing_up Get the code bug Report a bug Lost? Not sure how to install a plugin? Follow the steps here. Mak…

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That’s the function of bookmarks. I think that is exactly what bookmarks are for.

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