# Likes on a post

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [September 5, 2018, 9:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/likes-on-a-post/96396 "2018-09-05T09:03:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 8:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/likes-on-a-post/96396/18 "2018-09-21T08:37:42Z")

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Well, Likes can be given only to posts. But Likes can be associated with other data. eg.

- number of Likes on posts made by a member (eg. the /user page)
- number of Likes on posts in a topic
- number of Likes on the first post of a topic

I don’t know what would be best considered as topic Likes. For example, which is “better”

- a topic with 100 posts where every other post got 1 Like (50 total for the topic)
- a topic with 2 posts where the second post got 40 Likes

They could be further broken down by eg. individual members contributing to the total, date/time ranges.

But again, which is “better”

- a topic with a total of 50 Likes all by one or few members
- a short topic with a total of 40 Likes by 40 different members.
- a year old topic with 50 Likes
- a week old topic with 40 Likes

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