A lot of image boards like an image if you add it favourites automatically, would it be possible to implement this behaviour and add it as an option, please?
Topic: [Feature Request] Favouriting automatically likes an image as a Setting
Posted under Site Bug Reports & Feature Requests
re621 (topic #25872) has an option for this, but it would be nice to have this functionality built in.
I don't really understand why this isn't the standard behaviour here in the first place.
I can't think of a single reason why you would intentionally want to favourite a post but not upvote it.
And it happens quite often, that a post has a much higher favourite count than (absolute) upvote count.
In these cases, the user most likely just forgot to upvote.
Already suggested, see topic #26915 & topic #54373.
thegreatwolfgang said:
Already suggested, see topic #26915 & topic #54373.
My request is slightly different - they requested it as default behaviour, I requested it as optional setting to enable, so it would be up to user if they want to use it.
eightoflakes said:
re621 (topic #25872) has an option for this, but it would be nice to have this functionality built in.
I found re621 today while searching a forum today but they did not mention it as feature on the front page so I was bit on a fence whether to download it, thanks for confirmation.
madpengu said:
My request is slightly different - they requested it as default behaviour, I requested it as optional setting to enable, so it would be up to user if they want to use it.
Either way, you can see the discussions about the fors and againsts on the idea.
madpengu said:
I found re621 today while searching a forum today but they did not mention it as feature on the front page so I was bit on a fence whether to download it, thanks for confirmation.
It is not an official script, but it is made by an ex-admin of the site, so they can be trusted. It is also a very popular script for its other quality-of-life features.
snedmano said:
And it happens quite often, that a post has a much higher favourite count than (absolute) upvote count.
In these cases, the user most likely just forgot to upvote.
No, that's because votes aren't transferred but favorites are when dealing with inferior/duplicate posts
Hmmm, it seems that only makes up a minority of cases.
I could imagine a version where this is configurable with a little dropdown menu attached to the favourite button itself.
https://f.toi.sh/exampleflow.png
This would be a user setting, so probably would also have a switch to change it in user settings, under the "posts" heading. I could put together a PR for that if it's something people are interested in.
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Different idea, but related: The use case where people want to save something, but not upvote it, might be better served by moving the "add to set" link in the side bar into a more prominent spot.
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snedmano said:
I don't really understand why this isn't the standard behaviour here in the first place.
I can't think of a single reason why you would intentionally want to favourite a post but not upvote it.And it happens quite often, that a post has a much higher favourite count than (absolute) upvote count.
In these cases, the user most likely just forgot to upvote.
I use favorites as bookmarks of sorts, while I use likes because I think the art looks amazing. I might want to look back at something later, without thinking the art is amazing. To me, the two are entirely separate things.
snpthecat said:
No, that's because votes aren't transferred but favorites are when dealing with inferior/duplicate postsHmmm, it seems that only makes up a minority of cases.
It's definitely normal, the top post on the site (post #4005902) has a score that's almost half of the favorite count, and that can be seen across all of the top posts and across most posts that have more than a handfull of eyes on them
I'd bet on the favorite button previously having been significantly bigger than either vote button contributing some amount
donovan_dmc said:
It's definitely normal, the top post on the site (post #4005902) has a score that's almost half of the favorite count, and that can be seen across all of the top posts and across most posts that have more than a handfull of eyes on themI'd bet on the favorite button previously having been significantly bigger than either vote button contributing some amount
Plus other people are capable of canceling out your upvote/like with a downvote. No one can take away your favourite though. Always thought of score specifically as the boring-hivemind-score (higher score = higher quality, more effort put into it, popularity), and favourite counts as the weirdo-score. (more faves = more people into "that", but not necessarily that it's high quality)
(Though to be fair, in that example the downvote component of the score isn't that high)
ailurus said:
Plus other people are capable of canceling out your upvote/like with a downvote. No one can take away your favourite though. Always thought of score specifically as the boring-hivemind-score (higher score = higher quality, more effort put into it, popularity), and favourite counts as the weirdo-score. (more faves = more people into "that", but not necessarily that it's high quality)(Though to be fair, in that example the downvote component of the score isn't that high)
I've thought of score as somewhat random in its whims. Favourites are a bit more stable since you can't have an anti favourite negate a favorite. Low score but high favcount might mean that it's something most people dislike but can't be blacklisted, something that can but people couldn't be arsed to tag it, or controversial messaging/characters.
A high score is an indicator that the post has its controversial tags properly applied, or that it's of sufficient quality and non-offensive.
matirion said:
I use favorites as bookmarks of sorts, while I use likes because I think the art looks amazing. I might want to look back at something later, without thinking the art is amazing. To me, the two are entirely separate things.
But if you want to look at something later wouldn't that also mean you like it?
I've always seen a favourite as more of a "super-like" kind of thing.
And the site seems to act that way, since likes are prominently displayed on a user’s profile.
(unless you turn it off on your account, but that's beside the point)
It would be really weird to show bookmarks like this IMO. (Or have bookmarks public at all)
Also, like MadPengu mentioned, all other booru sites I've seen so far have this as their default behaviour.
Nonetheless, I can certainly imagine that a change in the default behaviour of likes one here would probably throw some people off.
Having this as an optional toggle you can enable is the best approach I think.
I really like the proof of concept that ailurus made for this.