# People are not using the ❤ button

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-are-not-using-the-heart-button/70783
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [26 Septiembre, 2017 07:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-are-not-using-the-heart-button/70783 "2017-09-26T07:40:15Z")
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### Author: ![barryvan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/barryvan/32/82635_2.png) [@barryvan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barryvan)
#### Post date: [26 Septiembre, 2017 23:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-are-not-using-the-heart-button/70783/11 "2017-09-26T23:58:12Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> I disagree; it looks about the same. You’d need a few more weeks of data to tell for sure.

I agree that we need a bit more data, and that time will tell. For what it’s worth, here’s the data accompanied by a seven-day moving average, and with [the holes filled in](https://meta.discourse.org/t/in-admin-graphs-days-with-0-activity-are-excluded-from-the-x-axis/66983/2):

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/f/8fa058e13736044c592d6263627740ab52825bdd.png)

If I put a trendline on that average, it heads upwards – but that doesn’t mean anything with so little data. 😉

I’ll keep running this experiment for a while; I know it can’t ever give us a definitive answer, because there’s no exactly comparable control group. As @HAWK notes, the use of likes is probably also at least somewhat culturally bound. Also, as @tophee notes, the forum type also plays a role; a large part of our forum is given over to suggestions, with the voting plugin enabled, so those topics won’t have any likes on the first post.

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