Like and Edit Buttons

[Skip Lackie]

I believe (someone correct me if I'm wrong) that the order of presentation of threads within one section is determined by the date/time of the most recent post, and has nothing to do with how many individual posts or likes that thread received (or its age, for that matter). Or did I misunderstand your question?

[r1lark]

Some of the responses to this thread exemplify and demonstrate the musty, dust-laden, worn-out and stodgy vibe/reputation this forum, and club, “enjoys”. People are interested in upbeat, fun, forward-thinking online venues and social media.

Nothing wrong with that, of course, if that’s what you like. But then, no need to scratch our collective heads over why young people leave the forum and the club… even as they have love for the musty, dust-laden, worn-out and stodgy brand that is Studebaker.

And so it goes.

”Studebaker- we invented cool”. ‘Kay

Oh well, if I have the choice of judging my worth by the number of "likes" I get, versus being stodgy, I'll have to choose stodgy.

[Skip Lackie]

I use a few different forums, blogs, and have gone back and forth with various forms of social media... I usually get a feel for how things operate at a given site, then try my best to roll with it. Depending on the venue, how it's run, and the platform or software they're using- it takes varying degrees of effort to adapt to it. Some features are great, some are handy or useful, and others are frustrating/useless/gimmicky. A GM truck forum that I frequent goes heavy on the "likes" and prominently displays how many you've received right next to your post count, but otherwise feels fairly similar to here. I feel oddly obligated to receive (as well as give) them. An interesting bit is that they *do* allow discussions of politics, religion, and cursing, but it's surprisingly civil overall . The Stude truck forum seems reasonably okay, but is lacking useful info on profiles (real name, geographical location, etc)... and features this completely useless system of brownie points that are redeemable for nothing and have no apparent connection to anything related to the forum itself, plus a few other bits of fluff that needn't be. Also appears to be unmoderated, but still seems pretty friendly.

Agree with your assessment of these two forums, both of which are very different from those on Facebook. I have been on the Stude Truck forum through at least two changes of host, and it has always been pretty much low-fidelity. You are correct that it is unmoderated, though it does have a POC who deals with the host (Tapatalk), and in extreme cases, he can ask them to delete an offensive post. The constant entreaties to vote for brownie points is annoying, but is probably a small price to pay for a forum that only has less than 100 really active members.

[gordr]

The 'like' button is just too "Facebook" for me.............. Facebookers living only for getting thousands of likes on their posts. Just my opinion though.

Agree 100%. The "edit" button is actually useful. The "like" button? Well, if you want to see trained seals clapping, go to the circus.

[Rafe Hollister]

Arrgh aarrgh clap clap!

[willys54]

Similar to the feedback feature on ebay.....not many use it anymore.

[6hk71400]

You are comparing apples to oranges. 14 years ago there was, and there still is the interest on fixing our cars. Like Dracula, the post was brought back to life probably because someone was searching for an answer to a car problem.

Pink Floyd, whether it is a reference to Floyd the Barber, or a off hand reference to a three times active rock band that last time was active was 2014. Sure the post was cute but most people here are for STUDEBAKER. Most people get the information then apply that to their particular problem. Most don't go back if it worked to post a like. If it did not help you can be sure that will be answered.

I don't know what to tell you but if you are searching for likes, you can go to other places, but you probably won't find it here. I get on one or two times a day and don't spend much time and log off. I hope that most my posts are helpful or at least give someone a smile. I am sure that to some they are annoying but I can take that criticism as I try to get along with everyone in the Studebaker community and life in general

Bob Miles
Do the Miles and get the Smiles

[Bob Andrews]

Ultimately, it’s a different environment here than other social media. I felt like a ‘like’ button was added here not because it would provide a usable service, but in a (misguided) effort to stay relevant through the prism of modern online communication. In the end it hasn’t got much use because the natural resistance to change meant it would be, well, resisted. It doesn’t line up with the proud tradition on this forum of furrowing our bushy eyebrows together over forward thinking. ‘We don’t need no steenking forward theenking’

Of course, I could be wrong.

[StudeRich]

OK Bob, WHAT did you do with the Bob of Post #14, did he get a "Mellow Pill"? .

Really, you should be a writer, you can actually SEE both sides of things! Sometimes !

[Skip Lackie]

Ultimately, it’s a different environment here than other social media. I felt like a ‘like’ button was added here not because it would provide a usable service, but in a (misguided) effort to stay relevant through the prism of modern online communication. In the end it hasn’t got much use because the natural resistance to change meant it would be, well, resisted. It doesn’t line up with the proud tradition on this forum of furrowing our bushy eyebrows together over forward thinking. ‘We don’t need no steenking forward theenking’

Of course, I could be wrong.

Bob, I think you're placing far more importance on the matter of the like button than is warranted. First, I suspect (don't know) that the like button feature just came as part of the package with the new forum software some months ago. I doubt if it was anything more than that. Whether its implementation was delayed for a while by Clark -- I don't know.

Second, I will decline to take offense at being characterized as always being resistant to change -- though I am probably as curmudgeonly as anyone on this board. It is true that most of us get set in (some of) our ways, while enthusiastically adopting the latest thing in others. But I am not sure that this lines up "with the proud tradition on this forum of furrowing our bushy eyebrows together over forward thinking." I can see the utility of the like button if, for example, one were a birder and took a photo of a cerulean warbler 1000 miles farther south than its usual habitat. One would want to announce that to the bird-watching world and would take a bunch of like votes as confirmation of one's proper identification of the bird. But we don't seem to have that kind of postings on our forum, and for that reason, I (as previously stated) find its use in most cases to be silly and superficial.

[Bob Andrews]

Skip- thank you for your response. Nothing is an absolute; and everything is a situation. But if one is being fair, there is a certain air, by SOME of the membership, of not only resisting advancements, but reveling in same.

Again I say the point was not to give offense… merely stating what is.

[Skip Lackie]

Hadn't noticed that certain air, but I spose I'm the wrong age to notice such.

No offense taken.