Why do I get a FINITE number of likes per day?

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Not only are we forced into these horrible, non-functional forums, but we can’t even fully participate in them??? I can’t show my support for other users in long threads without “RUNNING OUT” of “likes”–you know, the completely made-up mechanic that has no limits because it’s ■■■■■■■ pixels on a ■■■■■■■ screen? I’m a ■■■■■■■ PAYING CUSTOMER. It’s INSANE to treat me like a spam risk and restrict my participation in a forum I PAY TO ACCESS.

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It is just a default setting of the forum software we never had reason to change. It is probably the default because liking more then 50 things a day is common behavior of bots and spammers.

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How’s this for a reason: bots and spammers aren’t PAYING CUSTOMERS. The forum clearly already has a way to flag Plex Pass users. It’s bad, lazy design to just leave every setting on the default without stopping to think, “Gee, does it even make sense to leave these stupid restrictions on the accounts of PAYING CUSTOMERS, when the fact that they’re PAYING CUSTOMERS is itself proof that they’re not bots or spammers?”

I can’t believe I’m the first person to be appalled by this, either, so presumably at some point somebody else pointed out how little sense this makes, and somebody just shrugged and said, “It’s the default setting.”

I’m sure it’s not the intention, but what it FEELS like is Plex deliberately preventing customers from fully expressing how stupid some recent changes are by limiting how many other posts we can show our agreement with.

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You not believing something doesn’t make it untrue. Most folks don’t like 50+ things a day so it never came up as far as I know. This isn’t reddit so that sort of thing isn’t that important to folks here. I don’t mind increasing it but the software does not have an option to make it infinite. I just made it 2000 a day

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It’s wild to me that there’s no unrestricted option, simply because encouraging people to use a “Like” button instead of spamming a thread with otherwise redundant “+1”-type replies is a vastly superior method of managing forum clutter. But I hate the design of this platform, so I guess it shouldn’t surprise me. (I say this, to be clear, as somebody with a decent amount of experience moderating/adminning medium-to-large online communities on multiple platforms.)

Thanks for doing what you can, within the limits of the forum’s terrible design.

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plonk