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.

You can do anything in a plugin. Consider posting in #marketplace to recruit a developer to build it for you.

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…

If your just wanting to have posts boosted have you considered maybe a bot?

I’m not sure I understand. How would that work?

Ah, that’s interesting. Not ideal, but would work, yeah.

There is also the Retort plugin to add reactions [image] Discourse Retort Plugin NB This has recently been given a new lease of life thanks to sponsorship of @Hifihedgehog & the community at https://forum.tabletpc.review/ and is compatible with Ember 5 and Discourse 3.2 (and so far 3.3.x), but the message is still the same, unless you really want to use Retort, please consider Reactions as that will eventually take on some of the Retort exclusive features (timeline TBD). Retort is a plugin which allows you to add slack-style reactions to posts [7vHi2j74Rg] Install it u…

[image] negaduck: liking my own topic would increase this single metric, and the teacher would see this, and give us hints. Maybe just create a tag called “needs help”? I don’t see how a like solves anything.

This will surely liven up our discussions, I’m going to install it, thanks.

Liking own posts — a specific use case of discourse

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Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency) March 12, 2020, 1:44pm 20

The bot might be able to be set for example if you add to your post @botname it likes the poster’s post.

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