A Discourse Admin, jkmadathil, reported an issue where the ‘Like’ button is missing from the first post in every topic. osioke suggested that authors cannot see the ‘Like’ button on their own topics until someone else likes them. However, jkmadathil clarified that the issue is not specific to their own topics and that they cannot see the ‘Like’ button on any posts.
Falco provided the solution, stating that the ‘Like’ button is intentionally removed from the original post (OP) in categories with Discourse Voting enabled. jkmadathil confirmed that this is the case and that they had recently enabled voting to promote good topics.
I am a fairly new Discourse Admin, so apologies if the question seems trivial.
We have recently migrated our University Department’s discussion forum to discourse.
What I am seeing is that the first post in any topic does not have a like button with it.
[Clarification based on @osioke 's response]: This is happening to every post in my forum and for everyone.
Whereas a response does have the like button at the start.
Below is the setting in the Basic Setup for posts (I hope this is the relevant setting for this issue)
I am guessing the topics were you can’t see a like on are your topics, authors don’t see the like icon on their topics until they are liked by someone else. This is because they can’t like their own topics or posts.
That seems to be the setting that I have changed recently. I had put up Votes to ensure that good topics get upvoted and get more traction. This, I believe, is then an intended behaviour.
