Hey my lovely followers! I thought of an idea
As for the new idea I have, what if they added a like button for stories and then if a story is given a like it moves up at least a good bit through the priority list of Wattpad to put it on users' front page recommended list and the more people give a story a like the more it gets suggested and the higher it is put on a list if you search for different kinds of stories through keywords like you can already do(or wait, can you? I can't remember) and in that way it ups the discoveribility of those stories with likes from enough people, but it has to have a caveat like most everything has on Wattpad, each person can only give a story one like each just like with Facebook posts, yeah I know doing something that Facebook does doesn't sound great, but hear me out on this one, if Wattpad let's authors abuse such a like system by letting them farm many likes from each person that really likes their story they'll give an unfair advantage to people who want to farm likes like this, also I know likes sound like votes but whereas votes can be cast on every chapter, likes would only be given to a story overall to improve their rating, discoveribility, etc and then anyone who comes across a liked story can see a unique like icon next to the story with the number of likes next to the like icon for that story in what will look like an open scroll rolled sideways to the right and then the person who has read the story and like it well enough can then choose to tap on the like icon to boost the story if they so wish, oh and one more thing, you know how it would show on the newsfeed like usual that someone has voted on or commented on a chapter of a story? If this idea is to work even better than proposed the newsfeed should be brought back so that it shows a reader's followers that they gave the story a like. anyone have anything to add to the idea or any criticisms about it?