Currently, there’s a thing that is pretty annoying: you can’t dislike a message that you have previously liked.
IMO, it would make sense to allow that option. It’s possible on https://devtalk.blender.org so I guess, it’s just an option to enable on this Discourse forum.
Sometimes, we change our minds or our opinions about something, we deserve the right to click on this once more.
Oh please, consider removing this limit (or extending it to 1 day, but imo, if I had to choose, I would remove it completely).
We can all change our minds and sometimes we can regret to have liked some posts.
For example, one can browse the forum at work, while shopping, while making love… (who knows…), and he/she can like posts without really paying attention to the whole message. And afterwards (another day) it might be interesting (important even) to remove that heart.
I’ve regretted liking posts because they got edited or followed with shit posts by same member (sorry that’s the best description) and/or I had simply misunderstood the post.
Nothing bad enough to post a comment in the thread about my regrets but almost. Would have been nice to have the undo feature still active (hours or days later).
To be honest, I don’t know - which is why I don’t change defaults when one or two people asks me to . So I asked the Discourse team about this design decision:
when you read a post quickly, you like it, then you move on and browse other threads (10 min are way to short if, later (the evening or the day after), you want to go back to that post to read it again, especially if you think that you maybe missed the meaning)
if, hours/days later, you change your mind about a topic and want to un-like the message
It’s normal to change our minds, that can happen.
You can pretty effectively grief people by liking and un-liking forever. You could also get mad at someone and rage-unlike all their posts. In general unlimited user actions are dangerous as a rule.
For now, I agree with their position and I’ll stick to the defaults unless more people report in about this issue.
If I am not mistaken, since the adoption of the GDPR, every european BlenderArtist user can ask for his/her right for data deletion, and these hearts (likes) are user data…
It would be much more convenient for BlenderArtist users to be able to un-like messages whenever they want, rather than “forcing” them to ask BA moderators for data deletion (here: hearts).
Of course not everybody is processing and storing the same data about users or visitors. We’ll assume a regular Discourse instance and make an inventory of what kind of data is being processed and what the lawful basis for this is.
For visitors, regardless whether they have an account, browsing a Discourse forum, the following data is being collected:
Pages visited
IP address
Incoming and outgoing links
Reading times per post
User profiles viewed
If they have an account then there is some additional data being collected,
Likes given and flags being requested
Registration IP address
All this data is being processed in the legitimate interests of optimizing the forum, keeping statistics about what is popular and how people are using the forum, and keeping the forum free of bugs and attacks (like DoS or hackers). Most of this data is kept for a limited period of time (up to a few weeks) and then only kept in aggregated form (where any identifiable data has been removed).
Also:
3.6 Implement the Right to Rectification
Most personal information that is being collected by the forum can be rectified by the user themself. However, it would not hurt to mention this right in the Privacy Policy and inform your users that they can always reach out to you in case they are not able to rectify their information.
It is currently not possible to edit “likes” at will.
By informing you about this “issue”, I just want the BlenderArtists forum to comply with GDPR.