Only if we have a down-vote system to accompany it, I say... It provides no incentive to make less-shitty posts. Shitty posts will always be neutral or positive, why does EgN need to be in the business of boosting egos?

To share the love and to show appreciation. I'm know this has been discussed before but I'm not talking about a Reputation system that is balanced nor do I believe in keeping track of Likes, Upvotes and all the rest with a counter; I just want the ability to let people know that their post is awesome!

Some of you make great posts and yet some of you may not know your posts are great. You get no responses or nobody quotes you and you think "man, that sucks, nobody liked my quality content". But they did! They just didn't express it because that's the age we live in, we're not always so candid with one another.

Right now, you quote the post. But if it's a long one, that's inconvenient for us all because we have to scroll down. Quote trains and +1's are okay, I like them but I'm sure some people are put off because they always believe the post is not productive to the topic at hand.

This feature is all about spreading positive energy and encouraging well-thought out posts in a manner that is less invasive than the current medium. It is not intended to be used as a critique of somebody, hence why I am not advocating a Dislike/Downvote feature for balancing, that is simply not the intention because we should not be passing judgment nor always thinking so critically here. But I'm all for positive interactions and showing a little moral support whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Only if we have a down-vote system to accompany it, I say... It provides no incentive to make less-shitty posts. Shitty posts will always be neutral or positive, why does EgN need to be in the business of boosting egos?

To share the love and to show appreciation. I'm know this has been discussed before but I'm not talking about a Reputation system that is balanced nor do I believe in keeping track of Likes, Upvotes and all the rest with a counter; I just want the ability to let people know that their post is awesome!

Some of you make great posts and yet some of you may not know your posts are great. You get no responses or nobody quotes you and you think "man, that sucks, nobody liked my quality content". But they did! They just didn't express it because that's the age we live in, we're not always so candid with one another.

Right now, you quote the post. But if it's a long one, that's inconvenient for us all because we have to scroll down. Quote trains and +1's are okay, I like them but I'm sure some people are put off because they always believe the post is not productive to the topic at hand.

This feature is all about spreading positive energy and encouraging well-thought out posts in a manner that is less invasive than the current medium. It is not intended to be used as a critique of somebody, hence why I am not advocating a Dislike/Downvote feature for balancing, that is simply not the intention because we should not be passing judgment nor always thinking so critically here. But I'm all for positive interactions and showing a little moral support whenever the opportunity presents itself.

We had someone come forward with the same idea before within the last few months. I don’t think it went well with others in the community. To be honest I understand your point giving credit to those who take time to post something meaningful, but I feel people will just use it as a popularity constest to brag. We still have drama that goes on behind the scenes all the time. Having something like this could upset someone easily. Let’s say a group of people who are friends were to downvote someone just because they don’t like that person. I feel a system like this will bring some sort of drama one way or another.

IMO I wouldn’t enjoy the forums if it was like reddit.