Ability to like WordPress.org support forum messages

[Daedalon]

I want the ability to express my liking towards messages on WordPress.org support forums with one click.

This makes the support forums feel more alive. Information is also more transparent: at the moment I have no idea how many people really liked any of the things I posted, because most of the likers won't put it into words. That's not just to save their precious time; by not writing "Like #postnumber" messages the threads stay more readable and to the topic.

Having a like button and displaying how many people (and who) liked a particular post the support forums will feel that much more like a living community.

[Daedalon]

This has a secondary benefit, too: as people can see the approximate amount of respect their messages receive, they will start to write more useful messages, and also more of them, because it feels gratifying to succeed in the eyes of others.

The like button could be displayed at the bottom right corner of each message. That space is usually empty, so only in a minority of messages this would cause the current full-width last line to span two lines instead.

Speaking of which, I'd like this Core Trac to also have a like button. To clarify, I'm not suggesting any connection to Facebook but a completely internal feature.

[samuelsidler]

Migrated to ​#meta164.