> The Like Button is a classic example of bounding because it reduces your thoughts and feelings about a piece of content to a thumbs up People do write replie

> The Like Button is a classic example of bounding because it reduces your thoughts and feelings about a piece of content to a thumbs up People do write replies, but I feel the conversation is much terse these days. I enjoy HN because in general the crowd here is more mature and willing to invest in an informative thoughtout reply instead of just witty one-liners for karma (which I'm glad people here downvote). But yeah, I wonder what if we took away the "likes". We had an internet and community without them before. PS Thanks for the book recommendation.