You can nest quotes here, too… if you know how. 
Please don’t give these people any ideas.
There are boards with dislike buttons, incidentally. Click any of the articles here, scroll to the bottom, and observe the plus and minus buttons.
I used to vociferously object to the Like button for reasons given. I’ve lowered my intensity somewhat after spending too many hours on twitter. I come back here, read a decent post, and get a muscle spasm as my hand jerks towards a nonexistent like button. It’s a habit.
Personally I think the board should try a clap button like they have at medium.com. You get to press it more than once! Pair it with a raspberry button and issue automatic warnings to people who press it outside of the pit: raspberries are insults doncha know. Implement this during one of the board’s periodic lost weekends and enjoy the hilarity.
Oh, if only vBulletin had these sorts of features!
Ditto.
What can I say? My Dad used to listen to Rush. 
Dangit, where’s the “I feel completely neutral toward this post” button when you need it?
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Awwwwww! The genie’s outta the bottle now!
Take it from me, I’ve discovered through personal experience with Facebook that the “Like” button can be like the button mice push to get a food pellet. You become conditioned to do it every time you want to send out a “warm and fuzzy” to the recipient. It’s very easy to use it to death. I’ve actually found myself “Liking” long posts that I actually didn’t have the time or inclination to read in their entirety just because I wanted to send out a “warm and fuzzy” to a friend. Ridiculous!
Besides, if something truly impresses me, I should be able to take the time and make the effort to verbalize why. Otherwise, “Liking” becomes little more than “ass kissing”.
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We need a pew pew pew button.
I am happy to have a discussion board with no like button, avatars, images, or gifs. Those detract from my conversational experience.
Even the guy who invented the “Like” button now thinks it’s a very bad thing.
There are “like” and “share” buttons for the SD columns.
E.g., right now the blood pressure column has 98 likes and 650 shares. (Vs. a measly 58 and 143 resp. for my fatberg question.)
There’s also counters on the front page that reads 30 and 186k (!) resp. but not sure if that’s for the home page or what. The imbalance is odd.
I guess people like to share more than they like to like.
There are also share buttons for threads. Various social media are offered, such as twitter, facebook, digg, and stumbleupon.
Stumbleupon?