+1 for this, this is a must-have feature. There is no point of having a like system without like notifications for members.
+1 for this, this is a must-have feature. There is no point of having a like system without like notifications for members.
I agree. And forgot, it was mentioned here before too: So far 4 people liked my stuff
I agree, but it needs to be possible to deactivate this via user settings. Suppose you post something smart in a very large community and recieve dozens of likes for it, you won't want to get an alert for each and every one of them. Unless maybe they could be grouped into one alert saying 'you recieved x quotes on your post in thread x', which might be rather complex to implement.
Yes, notification via email is important in order to maintain social participation.
But each type of notification should have a way of opting out in case if the user does not want to get involved.
Going one step further, those that reply or like a post should also have the option of being notified.
One of the reasons why there is no participation in the blog and albums section of BB3 is because no one knows when someone else replies or makes a comment, so no one ever goes back.
One of the reasons why there is no participation in the blog and albums section of BB3 is because no one knows when someone else replies or makes a comment, so no one ever goes back.
I didn't know of this before when I bought the blog and album plugins, but hopefully the newer BB4 plugins have that feature. Having people come back to things is vital and important. With forums, people lose interest quickly as it is. People online are usually "lazy" and don't want to bother doing more "work" by going back through things twice or more.
If people are notified each time of a response or comment or "like" of something, they're more apt to go back and see what's newly posted or "liked", which encourages even more activity and productivity. Like Facebook, you get notified of a "like", then you go back to see what they "liked" and maybe gives you encouragement to add more comments or remarks to first post.
Alot of my top previous forum contributors stopped doing anything because they lacked appreciation for what they were doing for community. The forums slowly die off and no one cares about it anymore. Having to pay money for special plugins that help boost activity / encouragement gets costly too. Some of these features should be built into the core system to begin with, to help drive more activity and contributors. The "like" system would and could help with this of course, it just needs implemented correctly. 
I wouldn't call it laziness. If "they" were lazy they wouldn't be reading anything in the first place, but I understood the meaning.
The problem is one of information overload and we need to make sure that we remind people to return.
Many times I do not go back to an article because I just forget. There's too much going on online to keep track of anything. It must be done automatically or we lose the momentum.
It is true that many people in the forums start an interesting topic and give up due to lack of general interest. Facebook has a disadvantage "things last a day or two and then die". If we can provide feedback as well as facebook does, then the forums will be a much better platform than social networks such as FB, and we can do what we do best: write about serious stuff.
I'm actually kind of shocked that this isn't already a user option under Notification settings.
This suggestion was rejected during the Beta-phase of Burning Board 4.0, since we're working on 4.1, this suggestion will be re-evaluated.
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