The system is written in such a way that it can be easily expanded upon, so you can have it as likes, thanks, kudos, karma, whatever; just by editing the language string, I didn't want anyone digging in code. The exception is the naming of the files.
It'd be simple enough to actually have several types as well, since I was originally planning it to allow them as the original vision was to allow liking of users and topics; but the initial topic is really just a post, and giving the users profile a likes column and just increasing that based on their posts being liked seemed like a better route.
There are several things that I'm to add, before release of 7.6.1, such as the ability to limit the amounts of likes that people can make per day.
This is all running live on the test forums on
www.virtualnightclub.net if anyone would like to test and provide feedback. It won't be tested here at dev until 7.6.0 is out the door, which is getting closer and closer each day.
