# Like Count in Posts

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/like-count-in-posts/46540
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2016年六月28日 02:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/like-count-in-posts/46540 "2016-06-28T02:07:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![wemod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dec6dc/32.png) [@wemod](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wemod)
#### Post date: [2016年六月28日 02:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/like-count-in-posts/46540/1 "2016-06-28T02:07:49Z")

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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!

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### Author: ![ddigh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ddigh/32/64136_2.png) [@ddigh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ddigh)
#### Post date: [2016年六月28日 03:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/like-count-in-posts/46540/2 "2016-06-28T03:05:22Z")

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> [@wemod](#):
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> like count displayed next to usernames in posts. It would serve as a sort of karma indicator / contribution counter for our members.

This would be nice. I like it when in a conversation it shows that a user is that great person who’s helped society.

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### Author: ![alehandrof](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alehandrof/32/119526_2.png) [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)
#### Post date: [2016年六月28日 08:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/like-count-in-posts/46540/3 "2016-06-28T08:27:38Z")

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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.

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### Author: ![wemod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dec6dc/32.png) [@wemod](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wemod)
#### Post date: [2016年六月28日 16:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/like-count-in-posts/46540/4 "2016-06-28T16:17:37Z")

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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.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年六月28日 23:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/like-count-in-posts/46540/5 "2016-06-28T23:31:39Z")

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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.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/a/1afce0766e602e181dff595522a2d1be7c0b190a.png)

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?