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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 8123261, member: 56859&quot;]Congratulations, Doug!&nbsp; When it comes to your posts... and you... there&#039;s a lot to like <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s an interesting observation and there are other factors to consider when deciphering what it means to have a lot of Likes.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, the culture of this board is to click like liberally.&nbsp; &quot;Like&quot; can mean</p><ul> <li>I like what you said (duh <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</li> <li>That was a very interesting post</li> <li>You are my friend and I support everything you say</li> <li>I clicked Like so I&#039;ll know I&#039;ve already read this post</li> <li>I&#039;m clicking Like instead of writing a comment because I don&#039;t have anything contributory to say but wanted to acknowledge your effort</li> </ul><p>Compared to other CoinTalk boards, we ancients collectors are definitely Likers <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>In approximately January 2013 there was a mass exit of ancient coin collectors from another forum when some popular members were booted (SteveX6) and everyone moved to friendlier and less Puritanical pastures.&nbsp; Activity on the CoinTalk ancients board increased dramatically and in more recent years seems to be increasing almost exponentially.&nbsp; Consider how quickly a new thread disappears from the &quot;front page&quot;!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1414426[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The point is this:&nbsp; prior to the recent handful of years, there just weren&#039;t that many members actively posting on the ancient boards, so any given post from 2014, for example, are going to have <b>far</b> fewer Likes than would the same post today because far fewer people would actually see the post.&nbsp; This makes Doug&#039;s (and Alegandron&#039;s, and Bing&#039;s, and other &quot;old timers&quot;) numbers all the more notable.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps a more meaningful statistic is the ratio of likes per message.&nbsp; Because we&#039;re such Likers, almost everyone has a high ratio.&nbsp; If your ratio is low (less than 2 or so Likes per message), you might give some thought to your interactions.&nbsp; This is especially true if you&#039;re new.&nbsp; That ratio is skewed downward for people who have been here a long time for the reasons demonstrated by the graph.&nbsp; If you&#039;re new, your ratio will be very high if you&#039;re saying anything that is even <i>remotely</i> informative, interesting, congratulatory, or funny.</p><p><br /></p><p>If today you&#039;re not getting at least a handful of Likes almost every time you post something, you might want to step back and consider if what you&#039;re about to say does anything other than take up server space.&nbsp; For instance, it&#039;s really not necessary (and even bad form) to post something that is little more than &quot;thank you for clicking Like&quot; or &quot;thank you for commenting on my comment&quot;.&nbsp; Or, if you really want to do that, save it up until you have several people to whom you wish to say that so you won&#039;t constantly be bumping the thread back to the top.</p><p><br /></p><p>Summary:&nbsp; the number of Likes a person has isn&#039;t the end-all but it can give some insight <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>+1</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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