Octopus has a point

[Heffalump_and_Roo]

@octopus

Someone more enterprising than I could make a similarly titled pit thread for each poster and play that game all over.

Going back to the OP, that suggestion was made in this Pit thread as a way to show thanks, ironically. People could post a thread for every person to show their thanks and their dislikes.

@Joey_P

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.

from here

Like (a test)

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 …

Not actually a novel suggestion.