# đ Claps Vs Likes â¤
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/clap-claps-vs-likes-heart/73377
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 3, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clap-claps-vs-likes-heart/73377 "2017-11-03T18:29:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Duarte](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Duarte)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clap-claps-vs-likes-heart/73377/1 "2017-11-03T18:29:35Z")
đ Claps Vs Likes â¤
I find this feature used by Medium excelent to mesure the intensity which users react to a post.
**What do U think?** **Is it worth to implement?**
[Show authors more ⤠with đ âs](https://blog.medium.com/show-authors-more-%EF%B8%8F-with-s-c1652279ba01)
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### Author:  [@Drew\_Warwick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Drew_Warwick)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clap-claps-vs-likes-heart/73377/2 "2017-11-03T18:32:28Z")
Seems like it could be heavily abused. I could spam a million claps on a post just to troll. It doesnât seem to provide any sort of usable information either â thereâs a big difference between 20 users clapping 5 times each and 5 users clapping 20 times each.
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### Author:  [@Duarte](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Duarte)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clap-claps-vs-likes-heart/73377/3 "2017-11-03T18:36:50Z")
Maybe, we can setup limits to this feature as to avoid abuse. For example, user can do it only 20 times per day, and advanced users could do it more frequently!
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### Author:  [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clap-claps-vs-likes-heart/73377/4 "2017-11-03T18:48:54Z")
⤠shows more empathy while đ is more engaging. I think in a discussion empathy is more essential.
perhaps claps are good for articles or blog posts.
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### Author:  [@Duarte](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Duarte)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clap-claps-vs-likes-heart/73377/5 "2017-11-03T18:51:19Z")
What about mutiple â¤â¤â¤â¤ whatever, the point is intensity!
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### Author:  [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clap-claps-vs-likes-heart/73377/6 "2017-11-03T18:56:12Z")
wonât it make the UI little bit dirty? we currently use icon-heart-empty to make the page cleaner!
I guess people will like a topic, if they find it useful.
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### Author:  [@Duarte](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Duarte)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clap-claps-vs-likes-heart/73377/7 "2017-11-03T18:59:25Z")
> [@Pad\_Pors](#):
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> little bit dirty?
No, see the model I posted, It would be just one ⤠but instead of second click **undo** it would **add**.
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### Author:  [@Duarte](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Duarte)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clap-claps-vs-likes-heart/73377/8 "2017-11-03T19:01:43Z")
Like this:
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clap-claps-vs-likes-heart/73377/9 "2017-11-03T20:15:17Z")
Doesnât the [Retort](https://meta.discourse.org/t/retort-a-reaction-style-plugin-for-discourse/35903) plugin sort of fill this gap? Granted, I think you can only choose one emoji per user, but I bet that wouldnât be too difficult to change in a fork of the plugin.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2017, 8:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clap-claps-vs-likes-heart/73377/10 "2017-11-04T08:50:29Z")
This is only plugin territory for the foreseeable future.
We have no idea yet if this has been a success or not for Medium, as the addition is still very new.
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### Author:  [@Duarte](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Duarte)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2017, 10:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clap-claps-vs-likes-heart/73377/11 "2017-11-04T10:13:26Z")
Look at this explanation:
> To summarize: Just click the đ instead of the â¤. If you feel strongly, click it more (or just hold down). The more you clap, the more positive feedback youâre providing to the author, and the more youâre letting us know the story is worth reading. (Only the author can see how many claps you gave them.) Our system will evaluate your claps on an individual basis, assessing your evaluation of a story relative to the number of claps you typically send. All this will help the stories that matter most rise to the top.
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### Author:  [@AnimeCanuck](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AnimeCanuck)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2017, 4:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clap-claps-vs-likes-heart/73377/12 "2017-11-06T04:17:54Z")
> [@Pad\_Pors](#):
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> ⤠shows more empathy while
@Duarte
As a user of a very active forum ([community.wanikani.com](http://community.wanikani.com))⌠Please no. We donât need any more ways to âlikeâ things. For instance, we have this thread: [https://community.wanikani.com/t/badges-like-for-a-like/16372](https://community.wanikani.com/t/badges-like-for-a-like/16372)
Personally I feel a forum is superior to social media⌠because things like âlikesâ and âfavouritesâ and so on on Facebook and Twitter etc. feel hollow to me. I much prefer people use their words - and so while most on our forum run rampant with their likes, I am incredibly stingy with mine and save them for helpful posts.
⌠Just my own personal opinion on the matter, from a single user on a single forum. And even if you do implement it Discourse-wide, that will still be an option that our own admin can decide to use or not use, correct?
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clap-claps-vs-likes-heart/73377/13 "2017-11-06T04:27:22Z")
> [@AnimeCanuck](#):
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> And even if you do implement it Discourse-wide, that will still be an option that our own admin can decide to use or not use, correct?
We have no plans to implement this but we try to put most things behind a setting â everyone uses Discourse differently and that flexibility is what makes it powerful.
That said, I think itâs important not to dump likes on a forum into the same bucket as likes on social media. The purpose here is to cut down on âfluffâ posts that create lots of noise and add little value (e.g. 10 x âthanksâ in a row).
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### Author:  [@AnimeCanuck](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AnimeCanuck)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clap-claps-vs-likes-heart/73377/14 "2017-11-06T04:35:36Z")
> [@HAWK](#):
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> I think itâs important not to dump likes on a forum into the same bucket as likes on social media.
While I understand your perspective.. in the practice of our community, it is exactly the same (and actually creates more fluff⌠see above link \>.\< ).
> [@HAWK](#):
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> we try to put most things behind a setting â everyone uses Discourse differently and that flexibility is what makes it powerful.
I am very glad to hear that. Nice to know thatâs Discourseâs mindset. Thanks for your response!
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### Author:  [@Duarte](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Duarte)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2017, 10:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clap-claps-vs-likes-heart/73377/15 "2017-11-06T10:30:57Z")
> [@HAWK](#):
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> The purpose here is to cut down on âfluffâ posts that create lots of noise and add little value (e.g. 10 x âthanksâ in a row).
Thatâs exactly the idea I proposed thanks for understanding!
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### Author:  [@jcoates](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jcoates)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2017, 11:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clap-claps-vs-likes-heart/73377/16 "2017-11-06T11:58:59Z")
So⌠basically this feature is the sound of one hand clapping. đ