What I meant was if two people place a link to the same post in the same thread, will that post reflect it? The answer, as it turns out, is no. For example, both the OP and I linked to the same post at the top of this thread. As far as I can tell (or at least with the skin I’m using), it shows up as a single ‘this post was linked in another thread’ note with no mention that it was done multiple times. Furthermore, the only way to see who did it is to click on the link and scroll through to who it was
That was sort of my workaround for what the above mentioned problem I anticipated. If I made a thread called “Joey_P Likes This” and you made one called Heffalump_and_Roo likes this" we could each link to the same post in our respective threads and instead of a single “Like”, you’d see those two thread titles under the post, basically showing that each of us like the post. Same for dislikes.
Yeah, but mostly because I realize it would be far more work than it’s worth as well as being easily abused.
You’d have to go create one or both those threads. Each time you wanted to like/dislike a post, you’d have to go find the thread and post a link to it. All those like/dislike threads would have to be housed in their own forum so as not to clutter up something else. That would require a mod for general housekeeping.
Plus, I could post a thread to “[some other poster] dislikes this” and on the assumption that people won’t actually click on the link, they’d have no reason not to believe that person didn’t post the dislike. That also would then require a mod to delete the post and note/warn the poster (which means we’d have to have a rule about it) and so on and so forth.
100% doable, just a lot of work for what could be done by just having likes/dislikes turned on, if we wanted to go that route.