Thread:Pacman87/@comment-5625448-20130530105048/@comment-4052371-20130530144318

It's been proven that you DO need a certain amount of likes to rank up each time. If you just made a million posts, you would barely rank up. For example, it's been proven that Rank 5 requires 100 likes to reach.

And plus, you haven't really given a reason why you dislike likes. It makes it so that useful topics and posts are awarded much more than spam ones, and it's better than the old ratings system (which had no relationship to ranking).