Liking your own post's !!?

[Jacob van Heemskerck 66]

I noticed that you can like your own post's (like giving youself a high five) and it ads up to a good poster status, this is very wrong imo?

Can you disable this to prevent mis-use? because i could just like all my post's (even if they are bad) and get a good poster status!

I like this to be the judgement of other forum users.

Edited January 10, 2016 by Jacob van Heemskerck

[Henry d'Esterre Darby 3,806]

"Good Poster" status doesn't really mean anything on these forums.  Posters are judged on the basis of their content, not the count of their likes.  

[William the Drake 903]

 

But I must agree I've always been perplexed by my ability to "like" my own content. I mean, I wrote it so of course it's going to be brilliant. But it doesn't seem that the counter actually does anything other that give said person bragging rights.

I must confess however that I pride myself in have a 90% like ratio

Edited January 10, 2016 by William the Drake

[Powderhorn 2,626]

I just find it as a handy reference to see who (roughly) agrees with what you're saying in that post, thus negating the need to agree with yourself.

[Brigand 767]

It is a known issue and I agree, it is odd. Fortunately, it doesn't hurt anyone. The worst that can happen is that somebody is fooling themselves into believing they are 1 like more popular than they really are :-)

 

~Brigand

[Jacob van Heemskerck 66]

"Good Poster" status doesn't really mean anything on these forums.  Posters are judged on the basis of their content, not the count of their likes.  

It's not a big thing agree, but i like post's who have a good content and thus it's a judgement of their posted content. And if you look at someone's profile you can see if he made good post's, and worthy to look wat his good post's are.

liking your own post's makes the ''like this'' a bit useless. and like a said, ''I like this to be the judgement of other forum users.''

please think about to remove this option if it's possible? if not, so be it. it's not a big thing. but for improvement for the forum it would be great? imo

[Jacob van Heemskerck 66]

 

But I must agree I've always been perplexed by my ability to "like" my own content. I mean, I wrote it so of course it's going to be brilliant. But it doesn't seem that the counter actually does anything other that give said person bragging rights.

I must confess however that I pride myself in have a 90% like ratio

it's been 15 minutes i read your post and noticed you liked your own post.

im still laughing, with tears in my eyes!!

Edited January 10, 2016 by Jacob van Heemskerck

[jodgi 4,897]

These guys are really hard to spot, so sneaky!

Please close this crippling exploit!

[Schuetzengel 180]

i tried liking myself, but my neck started to hurt. wait what are we talking about?

[jodgi 4,897]

i tried liking myself, but my neck started to hurt...

[Sella 1,216]

I just made this post only to like it.Look away