# Alternatives to ❤ for promoting / supporting posts?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternatives-to-for-promoting-supporting-posts/84342>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [April 1, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternatives-to-for-promoting-supporting-posts/84342 "2018-04-01T20:21:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 4:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternatives-to-for-promoting-supporting-posts/84342/3 "2018-04-02T04:09:06Z")

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> [@icaria36](#):
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> I found myself unable to “Like” a topic in our website, even if I really wanted to promote it and increase its potential visibility. The problem was that the topic featured very sad news .

My solution to that has been to recast the “like” in my mind from “I like what this post is talking about” to “Thank you for sharing this, [even though it’s upsetting]”.

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