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This function needs to disappear. This is just like-begging (which is said as forbidden in the rules of the forum). If people need this much attention to live, they should look somewhere else to better their life.

i cannot write better. that's what i think too

back in the day forums did this with every link
to prevent mass reporting, bots leeching all the links

note the person commenting on the post is not exactly adding content to this site, and yes you can hide your profile, but you can't hide you post history from search.

a post gets 1% often less than 1% likes vs download counts, which doesn't matter if you are just copy/pasting links but there are people here who spend their own money on posts, to the tune of 100s of dollars. there are people who edit down content, improve quality and fix other issues with content that the creator cannot do, why can't they get more likes. a like is not a farmed item - it has no value - it is that old fashioned thanks.

the feature itself can be abused, but really the complaints are more indicative of a wider problem, that being internet culture has died.
people used to be rude and fight but generally agreed to some forum etiquette, now its almost entirely a ocean of leeches. for who the small act of reacting on a post is a major ask.

i like all the posts, for one really simple reason, like = i have seen the post.
i like posts even if i dont care for the content

i have access to the hide links feature, but i have never used it
the complains are ungrounded, and we are lucky this site doesn't require a reaction for every single link