News The 2020 Likepocalypse

[JayPettryMMA]

Alright, here's the deal man. Tech has reset Like counters to zero. They did this because the system was getting too clogged up - you may have noticed serious browsing issues the last few months, and this is why.

Please don't e-suicide your accounts because of this. We know this sucks, and that they meant a lot to some of you, but it was either this or have a janky forum. Parent company went with the former.

Tech has also implemented a limiter for standard accounts, where posters should only be able to like a certain number of posts each day. This also applies to profile posts and comments as well.


Direct quote from Tech:

Likes are reason your servers have been going off the rails. It's also making it difficult to perform some routine administrative tasks such as moderate users, change forum permissions, usergroup permissions, and comply with GDPR requests. They're in too many of the necessary database queries and they cause locks. We would have to rewrite core XF files to work around it. Our techs advise against that because the site would break every time we updated and it could create security vulnerabilities. We're going to have to remove them all. Your admins may put restrictions on their use afterward to cut down on excessive usage. You'll be able to like this post when we're done (or not).

https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/likes-purge.4110639/

 

[JabToucher]

I'm out....

 

[RockyLockridge]

So should I like your post or would that make me apart of the problem?

 

[accolyte1022]

Then why isn't the ability to like gone?

 

[Sila]

@Arm Barbarian on suicide watch

 

[TCE]

I say get rid of the "Like" feature completely, especially if it's causing problems.

 

[Deadwing88]

Every Sherdogger in the last 10 minutes when they've noticed their like counter..

 

[Frank McEdgar]

I'll still be here

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

Lmfao

 

[tripleo]

so what you are saying is we should just spam like each others posts, to get our likes back up?

 

[rear naked ankle pick]

@jei i live for likes bro, i spend days thinking of witty reply to first post in new threads

 

[Vulcan]

guys please like this post 40k times so i can get my likes back, ok thnks

 

[JayPettryMMA]

I say get rid of the "Like" feature completely, especially if it's causing problems.

We prefer to urge moderation. And the limiter that Tech installed will help.

 

[RockyLockridge]

@TheSpider scrambling on all of his alts to to like boost his Homoerotic silva posts

I say get rid of the "Like" feature completely, especially if it's causing problems.

while i like the idea of acknowledging posters who contribute meaningful (if not entertaining) content, I think it creates echo chamber-esque forum culture that promotes dishonest posting. (Conor bashing just for likes ect)

 

[Graves The Elder]

good, those things were fucking weighing me down
I had like a million or something

 

[accolyte1022]

Every Sherdogger in the last 10 minutes..

Stipe's worst nightmare.

 

[DeathStroke]

Welp. Time to reinvent myself as a rabid shitposting troll.

Or have I been one all along....?

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

And we now take you to our live feed of sherdog:

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Axe it completely for a user ranking system... or something along the lines. Separate the good from the bad... and end the "like bait" posts that don't contribute to threads...

 

[Linelo]

You're making us look bad.

Sherdog: We can't handle a like system.

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