Hello everyone! After trying to figure out a way to limit the trust levels , and seeing it is something complex in our case, we were thinking about the option of limiting or avoiding likes in a specific category. Since the likes are counted in trust levels, this could be useful so that in a specific…

Just add this in the CSS of a theme component, replacing SLUG with the slug of the category. body.category-SLUG button.toggle-like { display: none; }

AFAIK you can’t — but I don’t have any deeper knowlegde here. But… Is it possible to take easy road? Do your users really need all the tools that higher TL automatically gives? Then you could limit users to TL2 and give TL3 manually to those few who has will, need and knowledge use those tools. Th…

It would be pretty simple to use css to hide the like button in a category.

Really? Is that code available somewhere? @pfaffman thank you so much, you are always so helpful! :slight_smile:

[image] Jagster: AFAIK you can’t — but I don’t have any deeper knowlegde here. But… Is it possible to take easy road? Do your users really need all the tools that higher TL automatically gives? Then you could limit users to TL2 and give TL3 manually to those few who has will, need and knowledge…

[image] pfaffman: It would be pretty simple to use css to hide the like button in a category. By the way, and sorry if this question is too obvious, but I understand t would hide the like button from each post or reply inside the category specified, right? If that’s so, you just made my day! …

Thank you so much Richard, that worked perfectly well and solved all my problems :smiley:

But that is stopping liking for good at some categories, not limiting. Sure, if you get what you need then it is perfect solution indeed.

Yes, it restricts likes from that category altogether. It’s a tiny bit of CSS. Limiting the number of likes in specific categories would require a plugin that would not be easy to write.

It is important to notice that the CSS is only hiding the button in the UI. The button can be displayed again using the browser devtools or the API endpoint can still be called manually if the user knows what is doing as has incentive to do so. That said hiding the button should be enough to stop …

[image] saquetim: enough to stop 99.9% of the users And the remaining 0.1% would immediately be caught since the like would be shown beneath the post.

Limiting likes in a specific category

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Shirly_Nowak (Shirly Nowak) April 11, 2022, 6:36am 13

Yep, that’s the idea. Since it would be a group of users which we are more familiar with (they are students), it would be easy to “catch” anyone who tried to trick this.

Yeah, in our case it is

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