Has anyone gone to like a PM? And realized, "Oh, this is a PM not a post."

I have, and I just wondered if it would be a good feature. It wouldn't count as public Likes but would send a notification.

A lot of times the conversation has ended but you want to "Like" what they said instead of replying "got it, okay, cool..." whatever.

Just a thought.

After all, a PM is a private post. Could be useful for group messages as well. Instead of a flood of replies, Likes. Could be useful when you send an idea to a group.

But also sometimes members/admins don't have time to reply or don't necessarily want to engage.

"Thanks for the message admin, I won't do that anymore."

(Like)

Probably not the best suggestion. Was just a thought.

 

It is a Facebook disease to "like" everything. But I like the idea to "like" instead of say "thanks", "ok", "agree" and so on.  

Missing "like" in PM too.

Wouldn't such a thing be ripe for exploitation? It is a private message, 2 users could bump each other's reputation value without end without the admin or any moderators even being aware of it..

Wouldn't such a thing be ripe for exploitation? It is a private message, 2 users could bump each other's reputation value without end without the admin or any moderators even being aware of it..

​I do like the idea of seeing what kind of PM's are out there... would be nice to see this built in instead of having a 3rd party mod installed.

Even on Facebook I don't think you can like private messages. It's a conversation, not a status update.

I'd want a way to disable it if it made it in.