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b. can we ban liking posts in noc it lets you edit without it being clearly shown you did by unliking AND if you like an early post there's a reasonable chance nobody notices except the person who made that post which skirts the entire thing of NOC
I dont really like their existence but i dont think theres a way to remove liking posts in noc threads without removing likes across the whole forum
Imo noc sign ups should go into the main circus page and noc game threads should have their own sub forum where i would imagine its feasible to set hard restrictions such as removing peoples ability to like / edit postd