In many respect they are no different to the stats we generated in the old site that indicated how many “thanks” you earned versus how many you had awarded and the ratio of “thanks” per post tally. It’s really more of a metric for those interested to gauge how useful others may have found their posting history. If a good percentage of your posts have earned a like then you std probably having a very net positive impact on this site and helping others...if you have lots of posts and never a like then maybe one may which to consider the relevance of their posts, or not. Of course, those metrics are going to be rather out of whack for us old timers since the old stats did not carry over to the new site, so we can easily have many thousands of posts to our history and rather few likes at present since our last progress was effectively zeroed out in terms of “likes” or “thanks” earned.