# People are not using the ❤ button

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-are-not-using-the-heart-button/70783
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [September 26, 2017, 7:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-are-not-using-the-heart-button/70783 "2017-09-26T07:40:15Z")
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### Author: ![notriddle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/notriddle/32/133055_2.png) [@notriddle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/notriddle)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-are-not-using-the-heart-button/70783/26 "2017-10-01T16:46:31Z")

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> [@Viir](#):
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> I cannot make sense of this so far.
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> If someone replies to a post, writing “thank you”, is this not already an indication that they like the post?
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> What is the idea here?

[You can’t achieve Trust Level 2 without receiving and casting at least one like, and you need even more to get TL3.](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-user-trust-levels-do/4924/5) Discourse itself needs this kind of feedback, and nat-lang posts don’t give it that.

Also, Likes are less noisy than posts. [If the problem is that likes are insufficiently noisy, there’s a setting for that](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-on-every-like-should-be-the-default/40485).

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