Increase like/reaction limit for trust level 2

[waldyrious (Waldir Pimenta)]

@SomeoneElse

Discourse also seems to rely pretty heavily on upvotes for determining who’s who, and I can see that “devaluing the currency of votes” might make that harder. For example, regular spammers always try and upvote each other, and any downside from that should be avoided.

Interesting! I was trying to figure out what could be the downsides of increasing the limit of reactions, or how they might get abused, and I can kinda see your point. But that perspective leaves me thinking:

1. How exactly does an account benefit from having many liked posts? Are they somehow prioritized or given quicker access to higher levels of trust?
2. Is this kind of abuse of reactions an issue we have ever encountered in this forum? If not, it seems like it might be worth experimenting with raising the limit a bit, since there’s been at least one reported instance (this thread) of it negatively affecting a good faith contributor. (And I do agree that reactions are preferable to agreement posts that don’t add new insight to the discussion.)