I’ve noticed on a few other forums I’m on that they have a “like” or “thank” button in the bottom right corner of the the posts. You can “thank” a person for a post and it shows who thanked the person for the post.
I thought this may be a good/fun feature to add. Sometimes you get that one post in a thread and everyone loves it. This would be a cool way to show it.
Depends on how it’s implemented. Are we talking Facebook connect or a vB mod? And it needs to distinguish itself from karma. I’ve seen several forums where all the likes do is add to a total under a username a-la-karma making it useless because people just “like” junk posts.
Posting “thanks” instead of clicking a button also keeps a thread alive and ultimately gets it more views because it stays active.