Voting Buttons in Posts
2006-10-02
Then users could know which of their posts generated the most interest.
However, the experience of both standalone blogs and https://web.archive.org/web/20060415181401/https://radio.super.lv has shown that very few people click such voting buttons, even if the page does not reload in the process (ajax)
On the other hand, the very concept of LJ and the ability to use it effectively require a certain amount of effort that not everyone is capable of (I mean ordinary people). It is entirely possible that if this were a standard LJ feature, everyone would get used to it and click the buttons.