Liking own posts — a specific use case of discourse

[negaduck (Alejandro)]

Oh, that’s a good option, thank you.

Here’s the post on marketplace:

Liking own posts plugin

What would you like done? I’d like to be able to like my own posts. Motivation: And it is ok to opensource it, all github stars are yours. When do you need it done? It’s not urgent, a month is ok. What is your budget, in $ USD that you can offer for this task? I honestly have no idea how hard it would be to write this plugin and how much it could cost, I’m new here. How many hours would it take to make it?

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

I believe there is a plugin or theme component called something like Topic Ratings? That may help with what your trying to acheive

Topic Ratings Plugin

A Discourse plugin that lets you use topics to rate things! Features Rate topics by a star rating system in the composer. Enable different rating types on a per-category or per-tag basis. Toggle rating count and average rating per rating type. Toggle visibility of ratings, counts and averages based on user roles. Bulk actions including rating type migration [Screenshot 2020-08-21 at 11.12.32 AM] Get the code See an example Request…

[negaduck (Alejandro)]

I’ll look into this, thanks.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

If your just wanting to have posts boosted have you considered maybe a bot?

[negaduck (Alejandro)]

I’m not sure I understand. How would that work?

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

The bot might be able to be set for example if you add to your post @botname it likes the poster’s post.

[negaduck (Alejandro)]

Ah, that’s interesting. Not ideal, but would work, yeah.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

There is also the Retort plugin to add reactions

Retort - a reaction-style plugin for Discourse

Retort is a plugin which allows you to add slack-style reactions to posts [7vHi2j74Rg] Install it using the standard plugin installation instructions. It’s stable, supported, and works with the latest Discourse. Check out the code, or view it live on the demo site (note that you’ll need to make an account to use the plugin) If you have a bug or feature request, please post it here (and tag me, @gdpelican), and I’ll respond as quickly as I can. Cool features Category-specific retortions …

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

@negaduck

liking my own topic would increase this single metric, and the teacher would see this, and give us hints.

Maybe just create a tag called “needs help”? I don’t see how a like solves anything.

[negaduck (Alejandro)]

This will surely liven up our discussions, I’m going to install it, thanks.

[negaduck (Alejandro)]

I think liking is much easier. Adding a tag is too much effort, it will stop people from engaging. It’s a math class, it’s hard enough.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

Your very welcome. The Devs have done an excellent job making Discourse very customizable. Still learning a lot myself.

Have to do some research but the Data Explorer plugin maybe able to add some tools for the teacher and student as well.

If you look into adding custom emojis you can also use more math related emoji pics.

[negaduck (Alejandro)]

Yeah, discourse is awesome. I actually should go solve some problems, but I’m exploring what else I can do with it, haha.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

Well if you need a hand feel free to message me and will help where I can.

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

@negaduck

When I post a problem, I, as a student, sometimes can see the ways I can make steps to solve a problem, and I just add it to discourse, but sometimes I can’t, and liking my own topic would increase this single metric, and the teacher would see this, and give us hints.

Sounds like what you need is the topic voting plugin: Discourse Voting.

Due to the way liking is structured, building a plugin that lets you like your own posts is a little tricky. I would not advise it as your first Discourse plugin.

[negaduck (Alejandro)]

Ok, good to know, thank you.

[DBHacker]

FWIW, not a fan of “liking ones on posts” …

… but of course that does not stop FB users.

Hope meta discourse does not implement this.

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

You know what is cool though…liking posts as other people

[JimPas]

Thanks for making me laugh. You almost sounded like a little kid.