# Will SD ever add a "Like" Button? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 5, 2013, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133 "2013-01-05T03:54:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/81 "2013-01-08T02:00:22Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > I think “like” buttons could be useful. Take the Paterno thread where at least one person is claiming huge secretive support from others who are just afraid of being exposed. If we had said “like” button, it would be readily easy to actually see the ration of 4,987 to 1 after all. Just a thought. WINNING!!!? hmm. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/82 "2013-01-08T08:32:13Z")
> [@Simple\_Linctus](#): > > What I am trying to say is that management of \*anything \*cannot deny progress and changing tastes forever. Well designed things that serve their purpose often persist unchanged for decades. Often their greatest threat is from fashion junkies who think that everything must change to conform to the latest fad (or “taste”), or from people who think all change is “progress”. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/83 "2013-01-08T23:10:41Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > [We’ve added share buttons](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=607006). Wow, I’m beginning to doubt the veracity of that IQ poll. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/84 "2013-01-08T23:41:48Z")
I’ll note that some time ago TPTB said NO! to editing your own posts. Once a year isn’t being too obstreperous. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/85 "2013-01-09T00:26:02Z")
> [@thudlow boink](#): > > will you take us to mount splashmore? > Will you take us to mount splashmore? > Will you take us to mount splashmore? > Will you take us to mount splashmore? > Will you take us to mount splashmore? > Will you take us to mount splashmore? > Will you take us to mount splashmore? > Will you take us to mount splashmore? > Will you take us to mount splashmore? > will you take us to mount splashmore? > will you take us to mount splashmore? > will you take us to mount splashmore? > will you take us to mount splashmore? **⇧** **+1** ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/86 "2013-01-09T00:31:17Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Once a year isn’t being too obstreperous. It’s not obstreperous so much as it’s plain old _dense_. If **Jinx** acknowledged he’d asked the question before and made some new argument for adding a Like button, that’d be different. Since he never participates in the threads himself, I wouldn’t be surprised if he just keeps forgetting he’s already asked. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/87 "2013-01-09T00:58:06Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Well designed things that serve their purpose often persist unchanged for decades. Often their greatest threat is from fashion junkies who think that everything must change to conform to the latest fad (or “taste”), or from people who think all change is “progress”. This is true, I was making a pretty extreme argument - that I was using peoples’ lifetimes was no mistake. For a more recent example of things dying out, take a look at something like the order of Odd Fellows. Very few would ever join such a thing so it just dies out, but it takes decades to do so as few of the more hardcore members want to leave either. > [@Marley23](#): > > It’s not obstreperous so much as it’s plain old _dense_. If **Jinx** acknowledged he’d asked the question before and made some new argument for adding a Like button, that’d be different. Since he never participates in the threads himself, I wouldn’t be surprised if he just keeps forgetting he’s already asked. Maybe he’s just forgetful 🙂 I wanted to create a thread today which had I been on my laptop I would have created it immediately. As it was I was a few hours away and during that time I remebered I actually made it before. That can’t be unusual! (In fact I’m just going to bump that thread with an idea I had) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/88 "2013-01-09T03:05:44Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > It’s not obstreperous so much as it’s plain old _dense_. If **Jinx** acknowledged he’d asked the question before and made some new argument for adding a Like button, that’d be different. Since he never participates in the threads himself, I wouldn’t be surprised if he just keeps forgetting he’s already asked. Fair point. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/89 "2013-01-09T03:10:24Z")
Maybe he’s got that disease in the film _Memento_. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/90 "2013-01-09T03:17:12Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Maybe he’s got that disease in the film _Memento_. Perhaps then he could try tattooing the answer on his body. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/91 "2013-01-09T03:20:23Z")
Like button? How about a LOL button? or Troll button? Or a Make Me a Sammich button? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/92 "2013-01-09T03:36:40Z")
> [@moriah](#): > > Like button? > > How about a LOL button? or Troll button? Or a Make Me a Sammich button? I could get behind a “Bring Pie” button. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/93 "2013-01-13T02:45:44Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > This is not something in the software we’re using at the present time. > > But even if it was, I’m not sure we’d want to go that way. It’s always been about what you have to SAY at the Straight Dope. It needs to be more than just “I like” or “Me too.” We want your words. QFT. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/95 "2025-06-08T16:02:17Z")
Do you really think I’m going back to look at zombie posts from 12 years ago? No like-y. 😑 ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/96 "2025-06-08T22:45:40Z")
Looks like the seagull necromancer got magicked off to the cornfield. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/97 "2025-06-08T22:47:22Z")
I didn’t even bother to cornfield, just deleted them as a a spammer. Their sole purpose was to bounce around and spam the board as fast as possible on their hobbyhorse. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/98 "2025-06-08T23:31:26Z")
And all the bumped threads from them that I saw (except one, maybe) were about adding a like button. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/99 "2025-06-13T03:59:25Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > > [@TubaDiva](#): > > > > This is not something in the software we’re using at the present time. > > > > But even if it was, I’m not sure we’d want to go that way. It’s always been about what you have to SAY at the Straight Dope. It needs to be more than just “I like” or “Me too.” We want your words. > > QFT. And I love that, when she moved us here, removing the like button was considered important. She did a lot for us. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/100 "2025-06-14T01:51:17Z")
You know if you want to “Like” a post, reply and say something like “Yeah, I agree- great post!” Doesnt take much time. I am trying to do that more. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133/101 "2025-08-15T20:04:24Z")
Y’know what I “LIKE”? That my only social media is a board where no one posts opinions for the “likes”. I don’t care if you “like” my facts! Or my Workplace Rant or my Trump Dumpster Fire of the Week… if all you have to say is “Thumbs up, buddy boy, from a random stranger”, I don’t need it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sd-ever-add-a-like-button/646133.md?page=6)