The discussion revolves around displaying a like count next to usernames in posts, serving as a karma indicator or contribution counter. wemod thinks this feature would be beneficial, as some members miss it from their previous forum software. ddigh agrees, stating that it would be nice to see a user’s helpfulness in conversations. However, alehandrof suggests that a “like index” (Karma = Likes / Posts) might be more accurate, and proposes displaying it on user profiles rather than with every post.
wemod disagrees, believing that the like count wouldn’t be too noisy and could be displayed under the user avatar. sam offers an alternative solution, suggesting that granting badges to highlighted users would be a more powerful and efficient way to showcase their contributions, rather than displaying numeric like counts.
Hey!
I was wondering what it would take to get a like count displayed next to usernames in posts. It would serve as a sort of karma indicator / contribution counter for our members.
A lot of our forum members miss it from our previous forum software.
Is it something that can be accomplished using a plugin or does discourse itself have to be edited?
Thanks!
ps Love what you guys have done with discourse so far. @codinghorror @sam and team!
This would be nice. I like it when in a conversation it shows that a user is that great person who’s helped society.
Older and/or more active users (including mods) will have more likes than newer/lurkier users. But that doesn’t mean that the former are necessarily more helpful than the latter. Would it be too dorky to have a “like index”? (Karma = Likes / Posts?)
My hunch is that displaying it with every post would be too noisy, but it could be a nice addition to a user’s profile.
I don’t think it would be too noisy. It could be placed right under the user avatar and the like/post counts over 1,000 would switch to 1k.
You can achieve something similar today, grant the users you wish to highlight a badge, and allow that badge to show up as a title.
This is far more powerful as it reduces the amount of thinking people need to do.
Are 113 likes so much better than 98 likes? Is there a difference between 3132 and 4134?
