# Showing thanks on the Dope **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 15, 2021, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912 "2021-03-15T04:36:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912/11 "2021-03-15T09:39:57Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I honestly wouldn’t mind having a “like” or “thanks” button here, but the one that comes with Discourse (just like on Reddit) seems to influence sorting This is incorrect. Sorting is not influenced on Discourse like Reddit. According to **codinghorror** , > [@What were people thinking during the transition to Discourse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-people-thinking-during-the-transition-to-discourse/917400/74): > > Apology accepted, as this is completely wrong wink Likes are a step toward building a ‘greatest hits album’, but the only place you’d see that is on your user profile, never in the topic itself. The generalized concern is that seeing a like count will affect your view of the world, no different than the argument that twitter or facebook should remove likes. And it is a fair argument to make. I think Instagram did actually do that recently? Let me look it up… One thing I have noticed that … I’m not advocating for a like button. I’m just correcting misinformation here. For the rest of the post, I agree that’s what I see people doing here, waiting for something special to thank someone. It’s why I started the thread. When people wait to thank people, there are less thanks going on. > [@GreenWyvern](#): > > I think it distorts conversations, because people tailor their posts to get the most likes. So posting can become a game of ‘who has the most likes’, and can result in an echo chamber of popular opinions. That has been my thought as well. But I have wondered recently whether it might sometimes reveal that an unpopular opinion has more support than one would think if they just read the thread. For instance, if you read [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vbulletin-or-discourse/912161) on the day after the migration to Discourse on vBulletin vs Discourse, you might think that vBulletin would be winning by a mile. But the poll shows otherwise. Discourse was winning 51% to 41% for vBulletin. Anonymous likes might have the same effect. But again, I’m not advocating for that. It’s just an interesting thought experiment. > [@mikecurtis](#): > > Maybe we need to start a tradition of anti-pit threads. (un-pit? de-pit? I’m sure there’s a better term for this…) Sounds great! I hope more people do this. 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912)._