Update: Please let me explain what I’d like to have one more time, I probably messed up my explanation. My post has been edited, and the new title doesn’t reflect the workflow I’m trying to build. I’m sorry, I changed it back. I understand all your suggestions, and they all would work if I were a te…

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You could pin them, add staff color or rely on the interesting ones actually being interesting, then the math will add up, with views and reply’s :grin: But liking your own post, kinda redundant, you wouldn’t likely write one you didn’t like, right?

Errrrm no. You can’t like you own topics and I hope codinghorror does not see this : ) [image] Feature idea: Liking my own comments Feature I don’t mean to be a heart breaker but this isn’t gonna happen broken_heart

Use a tag to identify them? Eg ‘featured’

Related discussion: [image] Feature idea: Liking my own comments Feature Hi, I’d like to like my own comments, but noticed that this is missing from Discourse. Is this on the roadmap/possible to enable?

[image] negaduck: I’d like to be able to emphasize the most interesting ones This was the intention behind the “pinned topics” feature. (Either pinned to the top of the category, or pinned across the whole site globally.) Since likes don’t by default show who the “likers” are, it wouldn’t re…

[image] negaduck: emphasize the most interesting ones [image] anon48433008: add staff color Try out this suggestion, I’ve found it very effective (and striking). :slight_smile:

The problem is I’m a student, not a teacher. I post a lot of problems, but I’d like to highlight the most interesting or the hardest ones to me, to prioritize them.

I am guessing the teachers are staff? You won’t be able to add staff colour if you are not moderator. Perhaps you can flag or message staff about it they can add staff colour themselves? [image] negaduck: highlight the most interesting or the hardest ones to me, to prioritize them. Have you …

I should’ve pointed out that I added an unsolved button, which sorts unsolved problems by number of likes. Yeah, I know, my request is weird, but this is our set-up so far.

[image] negaduck: but I’d like to highlight the most interesting or the hardest ones to me, to prioritize them That’s the function of bookmarks. I think that is exactly what bookmarks are for.

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Errrrm no. You can’t like you own topics and I hope codinghorror does not see this : )

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