I’m having an issue where users use likes as a low-stakes way to engage with a toxic post, that has been intervened on by moderators. I wouldn’t like to delete the post, because I’d like the discussion to remain organically visible to help other users learn what behavior is not acceptable. But I’d like to remove the likes, and possibly disable the likes entirely on that post.
I don’t believe that disabling likes for a specific post is possible. I’ve found this data explorer plugin query (provided you have the plugin) Users who like flagged posts. This allows you to see what users are liking flagged posts.
Another suggestion, if you no longer want any replies on the topic to be posted but for it to remain visible would be to archive the entire topic. This however, disable likes on all posts.
Personally, if people kept liking inappropriate posts I’d be looking at the moderator guide and issuing warning or suspensions.
I think hiding them with CSS might be the way. Not sure if you can do it by tag, but you can with category. Maybe it’s possible to hide likes on archived topics.
This is just a theoretical one to float, but could you temporarily jack up post undo action window mins and then impersonate the problem user(s) to remove the Likes (/Reactions)?
I suppose it would depend on how many users had chucked a naughty Like in. It may get a little chore-like if there’s more than a small handful.