I don't like the "agree" button

Having an 'Agree' button is an awful lot better than having to scroll through lots of posts that quote another post and say nothing more than '+1'

Landon Caeli said:

It's true, I don't like it... In my opinion, it's better to "like" things because a lot of times, I think people hit the agree button when 30 seconds beforehand, they had never even contemplated the thing that they're agreeing with, but they hit it just to make themselves appear to have already known something.

What I think this tends to lead to, is the fostering of arrogance, and what that then leads to, is the inability to promote learning, because when you stop "liking" and prefer "agreeing", you're not encouraging others to be creative. And so what you're left with, is stagnation and not growth.

This is a hypothesis.

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People say a lot of things that I agree with that I don't really think qualify as good enough news for a like.

I like responses that are good,and agree with things that sound like something I would do.

public hermit said:

I don't agree, but there's no button for that. Which brings us to the most worthless button on the forums, the notorious rainbow. That is the surreptitious "disagree" button.

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I don't like the 'rainbow' button and never use it. I think 'useful' is redundant as it is not much different from 'informative.'

I think the ‘Agree’ button is fine. I'm a member in another forum
based on the same XenForo platform as this one, and the 'Agree'
button is not among the choices there. I think it more effectively
conveys the differences, even if subtle, between 'Liking' something
and 'Agreeing' with it. It's a useful distinction to have available.

It’s the ‘Friendly’ one that I would tweak a bit, if it were of any
urgency.

For one thing, ‘Friendly’ should go without saying in civil
discussions.

Secondly, it comes across like the civility of your post wasn’t
expected of you and therefore needed to be specially noted as
such: ‘That was friendly of you, I wasn’t expecting you to be
so nice. Here’s your gold star (well, red heart) for going above
and beyond what I thought you were capable of.’ Eh…Thanks?

Although, it could also convey "Your response was friendly in a
situation where hostility on your part would have been
perfectly understandable. Congrats on your self-restraint." So,
that's probably a better way to interpret it, actually, and might
be the intent behind its creation. But, 'Like' could serve that
same purpose, and, since ‘Friendly’ has the heart-icon,
changing it to ‘Love’ would be cool. Just from a visual standpoint,
it conveys ‘Love’ more than it does ‘Friendly’, anyway.

At any rate, it's nice that there are as many choices as there are.
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Landon Caeli said:

It's true, I don't like it... In my opinion, it's better to "like" things because a lot of times, I think people hit the agree button when 30 seconds beforehand, they had never even contemplated the thing that they're agreeing with, but they hit it just to make themselves appear to have already known something.

What I think this tends to lead to, is the fostering of arrogance, and what that then leads to, is the inability to promote learning, because when you stop "liking" and prefer "agreeing", you're not encouraging others to be creative. And so what you're left with, is stagnation and not growth.

This is a hypothesis.

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Maybe it could be split into 3 - a yeah I already knew that, a wow that sounds clever and a uh yeah that sounds legit.

Landon Caeli said:

It's true, I don't like it... In my opinion, it's better to "like" things because a lot of times, I think people hit the agree button when 30 seconds beforehand, they had never even contemplated the thing that they're agreeing with, but they hit it just to make themselves appear to have already known something.

What I think this tends to lead to, is the fostering of arrogance, and what that then leads to, is the inability to promote learning, because when you stop "liking" and prefer "agreeing", you're not encouraging others to be creative. And so what you're left with, is stagnation and not growth.

This is a hypothesis.

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Sometimes there are like minded people who agree.

Landon Caeli said:

That's true. What @RayJeena said earlier about the heart was something that has in fact crossed my mind in the past, and I'm willing to bet it hasn't for the majority.

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I don't think of the friendly icon like that. I can totally disagree with a post and use that because I appreciate the sentiment behind the post, or in support of the posters thoughts, or it was just plain sweet, or kind of like a hug, I'm sorry your feeling badly type of thing...

I use it fairly frequently I think, but not because I think the poster went above and beyond in their civility to others, to me that's expected.

I probably use that closer to the way you use the like button.

Landon Caeli said:

I think we should trade the "agree" stamp of approval with a "creative" paintbrush. Have you ever seen that before @RayJeena..? Xenforo offers it.

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...Or maybe just add it. I think it's super important to foster creativity.

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Yes – on the the other XenForo forum I'm on that doesn't have
the 'Agree' button, there is the 'Creative' paintbrush. I hadn’t
noticed that till you mentioned it.

Dave G. said:

I hit agree when I agree. Seems simple to me. I think the optimistic button can very obviously be a double edged sword. That can be a sarcastic button just as well sometimes. If one finds themselves just wising off with buttons it's probably best to not hit any at that time or it may come up on judgement day.

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“Funny” is the sarcastic button.

I don’t use it that way, because I think it’s kind of mean, but I’ve seen that use a lot.

I’m glad we don’t have a “dislike” button.

A “dude, that’s cute!” button would be nice, but we do have “friendly”.

anna ~ grace said:

“Funny” is the sarcastic button.

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Yeah I notice some people use it that way.

Andrewn said:

I don't like the 'rainbow' button and never use it. I think 'useful' is redundant as it is not much different from 'informative.'

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Yikes. I seriously thought it was something gay.

How about the icons underneath our forum piccie. The speech bubble is obviously the number of posts. What increases the heart symbol? And what's with the star?

Bradskii said:

How about the icons underneath our forum piccie. The speech bubble is obviously the number of posts. What increases the heart symbol? And what's with the star?

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I think the stars are number of likes (and other positive ratings we received) but I have no idea what that the hearts / blessings are. Any help?

Andrewn said:

I think the stars are number of likes (and other positive ratings we received) but I have no idea what that the hearts / blessings are. Any help?

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The heart icon indicates the number of 'blessings' received, which was more of a thing back when CF had things you could spend your 'blessings' on, such as those customizable doll-avatars. That was a long while ago, though.

I utilized the "Inspect Element" option to figure out what the star-icon indicates. I think it's just a positive-rating indicator for posts. Here's a screenshot of it, highlighted with the blue background: