# Discourse and the "can't give more likes" message
**URL:** https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669
**Category:** Site Feedback
**Created:** [May 13, 2018, 10:03am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669 "2018-05-13T10:03:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 10:03am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/1 "2018-05-13T10:03:17Z")
I logged in a few minutes ago for the first time this day, gave round about five “likes” and now Discourse is telling me that I haven’t enough likes left.
Does anybody know which time zone Discourse is using (regarding the likes)? Can I set _my_ time zone somewhere?
I assume that Discourse is using one of the US time zones. Then it would make sense that I only have a few likes left…
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### Author:  [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 10:04am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/2 "2018-05-13T10:04:23Z")
Isn’t it just the past 24 hours rather than anything timezone-ish?
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### Author:  [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 10:09am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/3 "2018-05-13T10:09:42Z")
But when do these 24 hours start? It can’t be at my login - otherwise I would have much more likes left.
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### Author:  [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 10:14am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/4 "2018-05-13T10:14:33Z")
I mean 24 hours ago in the sense of yesterday at 12:14.
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### Author:  [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 10:17am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/5 "2018-05-13T10:17:33Z")
But doesn’t say the message that I have no more likes _today_? 🤔
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### Author:  [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/6 "2018-05-13T10:19:06Z")
But it also says “try again in x hours” (where x was something like 2 to 4 when it happened to me).
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### Author:  [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 10:20am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/7 "2018-05-13T10:20:23Z")
Hm… yes, could be. I’ll spend my last likes and report. 🙂
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### Author:  [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 10:36am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/8 "2018-05-13T10:36:03Z")
I’m sure I often leave more than 5 likes a day, but discourse never scolded me.
Are you sure you didn’t misbehave?
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### Author:  [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 10:36am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/9 "2018-05-13T10:36:51Z")
> [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](#):
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> I’m sure I often leave more than 5 likes a day
5 or 50? \>\_\>
Edit: [Official Thimbleweed Park Forums](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/badges/33/out-of-love?username=frenzie)
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### Author:  [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 10:38am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/10 "2018-05-13T10:38:45Z")
Ah ok 😁
Yeah, I’ve never LOVED so much in a day!
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### Author:  [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 10:44am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/11 "2018-05-13T10:44:52Z")
> [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](#):
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> Are you sure you didn’t misbehave?
Yes.
> [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](#):
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> Yeah, I’ve never LOVED so much in a day!
But you should, because:
“Likes affect post rankings (undocumented) (Top, external comments etc.)” [Source](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-likes/30803)
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### Author:  [@yrface](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/yrface)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 10:47am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/12 "2018-05-13T10:47:06Z")
> [@Someone](#):
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> I logged in a few minutes ago for the first time this day, gave round about five “likes” and now Discourse is telling me that I haven’t enough likes left.
Interesting… I just woke up with an ‘Out of Love’ badge that discourse granted an hour ago. I was catching up on a few threads yesterday so I must have hit 50 likes without realizing it .
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### Author:  [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 10:47am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/13 "2018-05-13T10:47:39Z")
> [@yrface](#):
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> Interesting… I just woke up with an ‘Out of Love’ badge that discourse granted an hour ago. I was catching up on a few threads yesterday so I must have hit 50 without realizing it .
Looks like @Someone has the next level badge already: [Official Thimbleweed Park Forums](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/badges/34/higher-love?username=someone)
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### Author:  [@yrface](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/yrface)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 10:49am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/14 "2018-05-13T10:49:20Z")
> [@Frenzie](#):
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> Looks like [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/someone) has the next level badge already:
Ah, the Steve Winwood badge… doubt I’ll be getting that one.
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### Author:  [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/15 "2018-05-13T10:57:22Z")
It’s not only about the “likes”. There seem to be other features that depend on the time. Again, the problem is the lack of a manual or a documentation. (And that’s a no-go in software development.)
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### Author:  [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 11:01am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/16 "2018-05-13T11:01:35Z")
> [@Someone](#):
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> It’s not only about the “likes”. There seem to be other features that depend on the time. Again, the problem is the lack of a manual or a documentation. (And that’s a no-go in software development.)
It’s a hidden achievement. 😉
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### Author:  [@yrface](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/yrface)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 11:03am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/17 "2018-05-13T11:03:25Z")
> [@Frenzie](#):
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> It’s a hidden achievement.
After 1000 days, Disco-Bot grants you The Manual™
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### Author:  [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 11:04am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/18 "2018-05-13T11:04:11Z")
> [@Someone](#):
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> Likes affect post rankings
I don’t _give a hoot_ (\*)
_(\*) just learnt expression 😊_
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### Author:  [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 11:41am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/19 "2018-05-13T11:41:29Z")
Why you people like so much? To let people know you read their post?I mostly only like post that I think really deserve it. Like with the Nobel price. I mean you wouldn’t give that one to any Orange small handed weirdo. Right? Right?
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### Author:  [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/discourse-and-the-cant-give-more-likes-message/2669/20 "2018-05-13T11:45:23Z")
I’ve searched the Discourse source code. In the language files I’ve found the setting:
`max_likes_per_day: "Maximum number of likes per user per day."`
and the error message:
`create_like: "You’ve reached the maximum number of likes. Please wait %{time_left} before trying again."`
But both strings doesn’t seem to be used in the source code. I’m a little bit confused at the moment, but maybe @eviltrout can enlighten us? 🙂
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