I like the way http://stackoverflow.com/ displays the number of votes in the front page. This way, visitors can quickly conclude which topics are worth reading and which ones aren’t. Furthermore, if the nature of discussion website is about opinions, having counter in front page could help distill which one is the best & which are not favored.
any idea how one may start to implement this? (liking before reading )
at least now that the excerpt plugin is going to be build, it may be handful to have up-voting system in the main page. ha?
No, not yet. Still think it would be a great feature. Either as a part of the ‘Feature Voting’ plugin or just a simple plugin that adds a button to like the first post of a thread to the front page. Would love to get an idea of how difficult this would be to build
Mockups
Font page with number of votes/likes shown in left side
We don’t currently have voting for feature requests. If you see a feature suggestion you’d like to become a reality you add a post to the topic, preferably detailing your use case and why you think it would be good to have.
Though this is a very old topic, so a lot may have changed in the meantime. What exactly are you wanting, and do these theme components help?