# Like button **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 3, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-button/724099 "2015-07-03T01:42:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-button/724099/61 "2015-07-04T03:30:36Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > It’s lazy to hit “Like.” It takes thought to say why. And “Like” doesn’t spur discussion. Not really, suppose you have a thread where it appears that the large majority have one view while a small minority seems to be taking another. In the same thread it is possible the likes might be piling up in favor of the minority and actually give the readers a slightly different perspective than what the thread suggests. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-button/724099/62 "2015-07-04T03:50:38Z")
How about a “This post just made me take my clothes off” button? I suspect some of my stuff has this effect on people, but I’d really just like a little confirmation once in a while. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-button/724099/63 "2015-07-04T04:36:46Z")
Can I be the first to post, “Jerry doesn’t have the time!”? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-button/724099/64 "2015-07-04T06:03:44Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Why not a trial run – say, a month and see how it works? Because we humans, sometimes especially us here in the United States, can be a little odd at times. This may not apply to some of the Klingons among the Mods but it does encompass most of the rest of us. Once we’re given something our first reaction is to fight like Hell when someone wants to take it away. We can be shown in a hundred ways how bad it is, like for example cigarettes, but we’ll fight for it none the less. It can be something totally meaningless, like say the Twinkie, but suggest it may no longer be there and we panic. I can and am just as guilty of this as anyone else here. Once we have something, almost anything, it becomes an entitlement - a sort of sacred cow, to some. And they can make life pure torture if someone suggests it goes away. I’ve seen it happen other places; I fear it happening here. Will the world end and the universe collapse? Probably not. But I will lay money down that we’ll come out of it less diverse in our participation than we are now. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-button/724099/65 "2015-07-04T17:29:22Z")
So basically, don’t let people have it, because they might like it, and we can’t have that? :dubious: > [@Becky2844](#): > > It’s lazy to hit “Like.” It takes thought to say why. And “Like” doesn’t spur discussion. A lot of people do both. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-button/724099/66 "2015-07-05T01:23:11Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > It’s lazy to hit “Like.” It takes thought to say why. And “Like” doesn’t spur discussion. Sometimes I don’t want to say why. And I suspect a “Like” button won’t kill discussions. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-button/724099/67 "2015-07-05T04:24:17Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > How about a “This post just made me take my clothes off” button? > > I suspect some of my stuff has this effect on people, but I’d really just like a little confirmation once in a while. “Like” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-button/724099/68 "2015-07-05T05:57:44Z")
To me, it seems like one more bit of clutter on the screen to have to skip over. ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-button/724099/69 "2015-07-05T12:54:27Z")
‘Like’ _button_? Have you people never heard of Velcro? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-button/724099/70 "2015-07-05T18:52:01Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > To me, it seems like one more bit of clutter on the screen to have to skip over. It would be right right by the quote/reply/multiple-quote icons. How is that “clutter”? Jesus, sometimes I wonder why some of you are even on the internet to begin with. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-button/724099.md?page=3)