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Or, more likely, I'd just put '(Name of poster/character), nice post!' in the OOC thread of the game.
That's what I've always done. And if I do want to quote a piece of the message, like a specific phrase I liked, I'll just copy-and-paste it in for the quote like... I did here.
Like I said when it was the Applause thing - on a massive, often far more public, site like G+ or Facebook, where it's
often expected that hundreds or thousands of people might be looking at a post and potentially want to react to it (or at least feed their analytics data they can sell), I think it makes total sense to have a quick, non-cluttery way to do that. But on RPoL you never have that. There are a few games big enough that it might get irritating it
everybody in the game wanted to compliment the same post, but that just seems... like... super niche. In almost every game, it's no trouble at all if every single active participant in the game feels the need to chime in, because you're usually talking like 4-6 people.
I get where you're coming from, Ionathas. Having an even simpler way than posting, "That was great!" might encourage people to say it even more often. And moving to a more mobile responsive site
does change the math on how valuable that is, quite honestly - that's super simple on a keyboard, but less convenient on a phone or tablet. But as BBR has noted, if you're here to respond to anything, presumably you've overcome the "typing" obstacle
somehow*. That's what RPoL
is. So it doesn't really make sense to implement features, however innovative, designed to cater to people who aren't interested in typing.
And as it becomes more convenient, it also becomes a lot less meaningful when they do. Honestly, if there was a "Thumbs Up" count, the people who wanted to know would have to constantly scroll back up through the threads to see how their old post was doing. How many people would really do
that? As a question of `clutter', it seems like it's taking up screen space for something that, once the first week's novelty wears off, hardly anyone is even going to
see anymore.
*-Frankly, my answer has always been to wait. I'll read stuff on my phone, but I only reply if it's, like, super important that I get this in fast. Otherwise I'll just keep it in my head until I check in on a real computer again. To be fair, though, I have a bit of a tendency to ramble. I'm not sure anyone's noticed, but even simple things, like a quick footnote, I often have difficulty keeping short. I don't know what it is. Possibly something I should discuss with my therapist? Maybe a succinct message murdered my parents when I was young, or something. Anyway, yeah, I like to have a keyboard.