You become a Sotapanna when you give five thousand likes and 5000 kisses.
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Interesting thoughts, Venerable. Intriguingly enough just after replying to you I went of on my bicycle and considering the matter (where, in fact, considering the road might have been more appropriate) I realised that by my choosing ‘like’ would really be ‘appreciate’ (as suggested in your post) and that is typically how I use the button.
To be honest, my own personal preference is not to over-think it too much (much as I do see how it can just as well be used as the stuff of as meaningful a reflection as any other - incidently, I trust your final article will include a mention of the difficultly of a ‘like’ being conflated with agreement). Still, I can at least mention in my more deliberate ‘liking’ practice I think my chief use is to appreciate how something is said rather than what is said. Any mode of talking that promotes a harmonious, kindly, fluffy vibe (especially within the exchange in which parties disagree) is likely to get a ‘like’ from me.
As I said I’m inclined to use the button in a bunch of ways, but when engaging with it in a more reflective way (as seems to be your intention to encourage) the ideas being advanced in a post are often irrelevant to me.
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And even not to think it at all! :). But only to be attentive and careful when someone has addressed us, or demanded our attention in any way. Since there is surely kamma involved in ignoring them then, or responding emotionally with aversion or cruelty. In turn these attitudes, especially when turned into habits, exercise a significant negative effect on any community as a whole.
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Dear all :).
So many thanks for liking the poem that much! :).
Here is the link to the full article though, it’s about certain problematic behaviours on social media. I’m looking forward to hear your views on this matter.
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I can’t seem to get to the beginning this thread (ongoing issues on my computer with this site and with SC) so this may not appear in the right place. Anyway, this is probably really a question for the @moderators. I so appreciate all the posts in this Buddha Beings thread and I was just reading ones I’ve missed for quite awhile and trying to ‘like’ them and got a message saying I reached my maximum ‘likes’ for the day. This was yesterday, same message today. What’s the ‘rule’ here, seems kinda odd?
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Never come across that issue before Linda…maybe @helpdesk-dd can shed some light on the matter please?
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There is an algorithm that the platform uses, I can’t remember the specifics, but it starts off with less likes and then allows greater numbers of likes per day up to, I think, 50. The help desk that @ficus tagged should be able to give the details. Of course there is also the possibility of a glitch 
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In case this is useful for anyone else, I found this article very helpful when I was trying to understand how the trust levels work (since I’m new here and new to using Discourse in general). It doesn’t seem to specify exact numbers of likes allowed per day, but it explains how the daily like limits increase as the trust levels go up:
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Thanks for posting this @ekay. Maybe I’m just missing something obvious, but do you know where on one’s profile page it shows the trust level (article says we can find on our profile page)?
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Hi Linda,
Nice to see you, and hope you’re doing OK.
Your question made that thread turn a major detour so I’ve moved the related posts to an old thread on the topic.
Trust levels aren’t shown or shared or generally known.
Basically, the more we interact on the Forum the more hidden points the system gives us. You can also earn kudos by flagging posts and the Mods accepting the flag (but if the Mods reject flags the opposite occurs). Should we be inactive for a while (eg sick or on retreat) then our accumulated glory starts fading away.
The link ekay gave above is the best source. The whole thing is controlled by the Forum software and out of staff control. Casual users are generally Trust Levels 1 or 2 and regular users TL3, which gives access to posts in the Lounge. There are limits on Like and Posts, I don’t know if it’s a simple count or whether there’s a ratio between the two. I’ve never actually thought about it much. … Maybe you could try writing some responses as well as just liking. … The general thinking behind the set up is to encourage folks to interact.
Hope that helps a bit.
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I cant find it anymore but there was a list somewhere of how many 
s we each get to give according to our trust level. And there is even a badge for being “out of love” when someone has used up all their s; a badge of honour surely!
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alternatively, one can entirely keep the mind out of theme of ‘like’.
Weigh the mind upon Right speech instead. As long as the speech is abiding to dhamma and precepts, there is no worry on your mind.
If one enjoys to have a lot of ‘like’, i would assume he has a little trouble to deal with.
As to giving like, i don’t know if it means that much about a person’s generosity. Slow to praise, slow to blame, it is not a bad quality to have.
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Daily likes limit resets every day at UTC 0:00, so this may not coincide with what you perceive as your ‘day’.
For example, for someone in the UTC-6 timezone it is possible to use all their daily likes by 5:59 PM local time. The timer then resets at 6:00 PM local time and they can use all the daily likes (of the new UTC day) again.
The perceived problem arises the next (local) day for them, because now they cannot like until 6:00 PM, when the daily likes reset again.
Daily likes limit is set to 50, which means that the tl2 gets 75, and tl3 gets 100 likes per day.
Click on your avatar in this topic, the first badge displayed says Member. If you click on that it will show you what trust level it corresponds to (tl2).
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@Akaliko
Well I got a message saying I was “out of love” so it seems the more you give, the more it depletes, hmmmm, doesn’t seem very Buddhist-like to me 
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Thanks @musiko, that explains it. Well, its all fine with me, I was just curious as to how it worked with likes, trust levels, etc (except for this site I don’t do any social media so I’m quite uninformed about such things). For example, I had also wondered why on this site sometimes I seem to have access to the lounge category, other times not–so apparently trust levels go up and down–impermanence, how appropriate
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@Jacky, ah yes, but the Buddha did say one should praise what should be prasied and criticized what should be criticized (sorry, can’t remember the sutta offhand, maybe someone else has the reference). So of course I thought people should be praised for all their wonderful posts to the Buddha Beings discussion because like @Akaliko I secretly hope that discussion (along with the Dhamma Doodles one by @Yodha) will take over the site 
@Gillian Thanks for your kind reply and for moving the topic!
OK, sorry, I see I should have put all these posts into one. So much to learn… 
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I started my opinion with ‘alternatively’ - it implies understanding to the practice of promoting likes.
Although I have conservation on commonly how we understand the relationship between popularity and the posts.
Commonly, we take a like/dislike as merely a response towards the speech, action just occured here and now.
But if we look at Aṅgulimāla’s story, ppl throws stones at him when he is of purest mind, action.
Response from ppl is not about what we do here and now, at least not entirely. It is about past, past lives too.
If we use ppl’s response as a guideline of how we are doing now, it will lead us astray.
I have a view that fame, status, popularity, richness, life span, are decently predetermined by our past deeds, although not entirely. It always comes easy to some and unreachable to others.
We could try to strive to get them - but alternatively, easier way, it is to completely take our mind out of those themes.
The only reliable measure to our current conduct, is dhamma, precepts.
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Access to Lounge is tied to tl3, which is not permanent. From the Understanding Discourse Trust Levels
To get to trust level 3, in the last 100 days…
- Must have visited at least 50% of days
- …
Other trust levels are permanent, unless moderators decide to lock them for specific users for various reasons.
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