Is the recommend button equivalent to the 'like' button on Facebook?

[NineChooks]

[tygfuz Graduate]

Where's the recommend button?

[NineChooks Graduate in reply to tygfuz]

Ha ha, I can see it right under what you have written so I've pressed it to see what happens

[Oldgirl Graduate in reply to NineChooks]

Haha I've pressed your now, I guess its just the same as the 'Like' on F/B as you said. Oh yours is green I suppose thats to show the difference between an original question/post and a response then.

[OldNed Graduate]

I think it's intended to be the equivalent of the Facebook "Like" button but I think they've got the terminology completely wrong. I've noticed that the Recommend button is hardly ever used. That's because people don't necessarily want to Recommend something, so they don't, but may want to Like it, but because it doesn't say Like....they don't. A nice example of how using the wrong word completely undermines what was probably a good intention.

[Oldgirl Graduate in reply to OldNed]

I liked that response Ned So you now have a green recommend

[OldNed Graduate in reply to Oldgirl]

Thanks Oldgirl; that made me smile. It must have rung a bell with others too as I notice I now have 3 Recommends!

[NineChooks Graduate]

Yeah, I don't think i've seen anyone use it!

I would recommend calling that button the 'agree' button

[wilmacgh Graduate]

We now also have a feedback button bottom left. I've used it to suggest that on clicking a response it takes you to the post you click on or even the top rather than the response box and they say it's on their (I suspect very long) list. You could try asking for a "like" button or rename the recommend one.

[wilmacgh Graduate]

It would be nice if you could see who is "recommending" the posts too.