Individual posts in a thread can be great but then the thread overall can be pretty good, too. Maybe popular or useful threads are just supposed to be calculated from the sum of individual posts liked but maybe it would be helpful to have a LIKE button for a thread overall if such a button were used judiciously only when it was reasonably merited.
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not sure what you want to achive by that but you can flag a thread so you Keep updated, you can bookmark it to find again later and of Course you can “like” the initial post to Show that you like the Topic.
The idea is for members who find a particular thread very useful to let other members know the overall utility of the thread. Without a thread LIKE button, liking the initial post in a thread might be the closest thing for voting for the thread overall but often the OP just begins a thread with a question that might not necessary contain much related to why subsequent posts are very useful.
The thread that motivated my suggestion illustrates this point. The OP wondered why he experienced a lot of yaw during takeoff. The various replies overall formed a very useful thread to a newbie like me and I thought other newbies should know via a LIKE button for a thread (and hopefully other folks up voting it, too) that it’s a pretty useful thread on dealing with the realism of FS 2020 and flying a small craft.
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Okay, understand.
I take this from the numbers of comments that is displayed which indicate that this must be of interest when there is so much activity in thread.
But I agree that a like button might be useful there.
Don’t quote my thread without permission. It’s highly disrespectful.
Hi, @edf8981. I’m sorry if I quoted your thread without asking your permission and it upset you. I’ll make note of your not liking to be quoted without permission and in the future, after this, avoid doing so.
I earlier had a discussion with one of the moderators on how to link to a post in another thread. If you’ve noticed, in this Discourse forum there is a link button after each and every post to allow linking. But if you try to use the link in your post, you’ll get a notice that HTML links are not permitted (for security and control reasons) and the Discourse forum software apparently has no way to differentiate between internal and external HTML links. A moderator (@Nyx1819) advised me that the way to link to another thread was to quote a post in another thread. And the moderator did not advise me to first ask permission of ANYONE to do so or say that it would be disrespectful to do otherwise.
Unfortunately, the restriction on links does not have a distinction between internal and external URLs.
I agree, have you tried the quote function? The quote function allows you to quote a portion of another users post, just as I have above. Quoting is easy, simply highlight the section of text you want to quote and hit the quote button.
You can even quote text from another thread. Simply copy the desired text and create a quote block that looks like this:
[quote="JALxml, post:1, topic:127952"]
As a newbie
[/quote]
The quote block takes three parameters:
- The name of the author you are quoting
- The post ID
- Finally the post number
[/quote]
I think your comment about first having to ask permission to quote someone’s words openly posted in another thread on a community forum raises some serious issues about the proper polite way to have a social forum and exchange ideas so I am referring our posts here to that moderator @Nyx1819 with hopes that he can raise the issue with the rest of the moderator team for the Flight Simulator forum and if needed, appropriately modify the Code of Conduct for the forum. I’ve been a member of online forums since 1997 and never heard that for politeness sake that one needs to ask permission as long as one is not violating any standards of reasonable social courtesy. But I am always willing to learn what’s expected whenever I join a new forum as I just did for this one here. I thought the post that I quoted raised an important issue about the unexplained yaw behavior of FS 2020, especially as experienced by naive newbies like me and that other people also would greatly appreciate the possible answers to the yaw issue given in the thread - and that the overall thread should be marked as a very helpful thread for learning how to use FS 2020.
I will be busy for the rest of the day so it may be awhile before I have a chance to reply to anything further you wish to say to me. Again, I’m sorry if I hurt or offended you. I didn’t mean to and I thought that you started a very useful thread and there should be a way of marking such threads in general as useful - I intended to do that with the thread that you started and asked the moderators to consider instituting such a mechanism (the topic of my OP here).
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You posted on a public forum, people are allowed to quote or otherwise link to your thread.
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