# What, no love for you?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-no-love-for-you/100765
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [October 29, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-no-love-for-you/100765 "2018-10-29T15:16:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-no-love-for-you/100765/1 "2018-10-29T15:16:05Z")
Always nice to see the ‘competition’ removing features 😉 Hopefully FB will follow suit …
> **[Twitter May Soon Remove 'Likes' in Ongoing Effort to Promote Healthy...](https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/29/twitter-remove-likes/?utm_source=osx&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=ios)**
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> Twitter is reportedly planning to remove "likes" from the social media platform as its CEO Jack Dorsey told employees at an in-house event...
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-no-love-for-you/100765/2 "2018-10-29T15:17:16Z")
I would wait until this rolls out, because I am very skeptical that it will.
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### Author:  [@jerdog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jerdog)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-no-love-for-you/100765/3 "2018-10-29T18:39:17Z")
Yeah it doesn’t make sense quite honestly - seems to me like a “grasping at straws” moment
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-no-love-for-you/100765/4 "2018-10-29T18:51:10Z")
It’s easy to interpret that in one of two ways, I think people have sensationalised the quote mostly _for the clicks_.
> “not a fan of the heart-shaped button”
Either means:
- The ability to like tweets is going away
- Liking tweets can be expressed in a better other than a love heart.
If there’s any truth in the report it’s more likely that option two would be pursued. Twitter’s big currency right now is with social influencers and that side of their platform. Scrapping the most basic of responses would rapidly diminish one of the go-to metrics for engagement.
The only other comments have come from Twitter PR and they’re deliberately ambiguous.
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### Author:  [@notriddle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/notriddle)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-no-love-for-you/100765/6 "2018-10-29T21:26:36Z")
For context’s sake, there’s already a blog post on how Discourse aims to do better than Twitter:
> **[Your Community Door](https://blog.codinghorror.com/your-community-door/)**
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> What are the real world consequences to signing up for a Twitter or Facebook account through Tor and spewing hate toward other human beings?
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> Facebook reviewed the comment I reported and found it doesn’t violate their Community Standards. – Rob...
This doesn’t mention likes, so I’ll mention the big difference between Discourse and Twitter:
- Discourse never sorts users, or posts, by likes. Liking a post doesn’t impact the post’s visibility at all.
- Likes do influence a user’s visibility, by raising rate-limits and unlocking features, but these do not grow without bound. Once you reach [twenty](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/), there’s no point in trying to get more.
- The number of likes that a user receives is buried under their profile, and shown alongside a bunch of other numbers, including the number of likes they’ve given.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2018, 11:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-no-love-for-you/100765/7 "2018-10-29T23:59:02Z")
Right, in order for this to be an issue we’d have to show “x likes received” under everyone’s avatar. Which would I guess be marginally better than the classic forum trope of “x posts” showing under everyone’s avatar. There’s a _reason_ we don’t do that..
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### Author:  [@terraboss](https://meta.discourse.org/u/terraboss)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2018, 9:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-no-love-for-you/100765/8 "2018-10-30T09:11:13Z")
How a about a [color scale solution](https://www.heise.de/forum/heise-online/News-Kommentare/Nach-Anschlag-auf-US-Synagoge-Hoster-zieht-bei-Twitter-Alternative-Gab-den-Stecker/forum-412768/page-2/) with up- and downvoting as alternative?
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2018, 12:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-no-love-for-you/100765/9 "2018-10-30T12:17:09Z")
There are lots of topics here with well documented responses as to why Discourse doesn’t include any aggragate score or Karma.