>>For the like button do you think you can extend the functionality to be similar to Facebook? Say, I'd like to give Kevin's reply to Doug a "sad" face icon which I would do if it would be a Facebook post.
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>For years, I have tried to say away from such a feature. Despite the site offering something that is widely used on social networking platforms, I never wanted to go too far in that direction. As I explained in my first book, and soon with more information in the 3rd book, one of the reason this site has survived that long is that is tried to preserve as much human values as possible. I do believe that all those visual emojis are counter productive and do not belong in any professional platform.

Agree 100%.

And I wasn't trying to put a "downer" on Doug - like I said, I've made that suggestion to other conference organizers. The truth is that even during conference season in the fall, a good number will be very hesitant to travel. I've "retired" from the MVP race and all physical user group sessions because it's just too much, but I've volunteered to do virtual SQL Saturday/user group sessions, and I think that's going to be a growing model.

Some day we will come out of this - but our world has changed.