Well...originally the "like" button was introduced here on community suggestions. At the time, when Ben owned the forum, there were bandwidth problems. People would post pics and vids, then when it was quoted, all that content would be doubled, etc. So one suggestion was to create a "like" button. The idea being perhaps if you "liked" it, then you might not feel compelled to quote it. Everybody has their idea of how the feature should be used. Kesh for example uses the like button in hopes that the liked user will feel obligated to return the favor, and in this way he will feel liked. The problem is that when that hasn't worked, he will quote then state he 'liked' it. Perhaps imagining the user did not notice. Its part of his daily affirmation process.
