'Like' shared posts up to the source and inform also the sharing

I,m agree

DEFINITELY!!! Yes!!!!

I'd love comments on reshares to filter up to the source too, that's be amazing!

It always bugs me that when resharers happen to be more "popular" than the original poster (OP), they're likely to get much of the love that should go to the OP, who thus may feel like his/her thunder is stolen, though it's not really the case and certainly not the resharers' fault. So yes, I'm all for "cascading up" (not sure about that expression, I'm not English-native either!) the likes to the OP. Resharers may or may not keep their share of the likes, I don't mind.
Comments are another matter imo. For example, someone may reshare a post and exchange comments with their contacts in a language OP doesn't know. OP doesn't necessarily want to be cluttered with all those comments, especially when too often than not, the discussion quickly goes off-topic.
There are tools like http://rsv.diapod.net/ that display the whole reshare tree; it would be a good thing to have it integrated as a D* feature.

To me it seems like the initial idea was to "embed" the reshared post in a post of your own, to be able to comment or extend it when you reshare it.

But the way it is implemented now, I totally agree. It's like a glorified "link" to the original, snatching all of the originals fame ;)

No. I disagree on this proposal. If one of my contacts reshares a post, and I comment on it to interact with my friend, I do not want my comment to appear on the original post, made probably by someone I don't know, and containing interactions which I'm not privy to (because the original post doesn't appear in my stream).

This proposal would make reshares pointless and unworkable as far as I'm concerned, and if this were to be implemented I'd want reshares to be removed completely from my stream. I wouldn't want to see a post I can't interact on (or rather, on which any interaction I make it sent off to a different source.

The reshare system can definitely be improved, but this proposal is not a good one. It'll cause confusion.

It would possibly be fair enough to display on the original post the number of likes/reshares made on reshares of that post, but the identities of those people should not be displayed on the original post, because they did not intend to interact directly with it.

I like the idea of the reshare tree, but the implimentation so far is pretty meh. I would much prefer a simple text tree.

@goob : I guess I see your point. The number of likes/reshares may be preferable to revealing identities. But you know that resharing is a public activity anyway, right? Only public posts can be reshared. And I don't think you can see reshared posts from people you're ignoring....

On a seperate topic, we could probably use the ability to share to specific aspects.

I like @xophael 's proposal to use an already existing tool, the beautiful share graph, within D* (modified, adapted, for sure). This would be a really cool functionality, something to show off :) . It could be tried as a greasemonkey script initially.

likes : although one may want to make a distinction between "I like that you shared that" and "I like that", I'd say likes should go to the OP, as opposed to

comments : which are, for a variety of reasons noted above, local, resharer-related.

If there was this graph functionality, it would serve as a map to the places where you can go and comment (the OP, but also other places where the are interesting spin-offs). This would be huge, imho.

@goob : On the other hand, it is a bit annoying to see three or four times the same post reshared by three or four persons. I don't know if anyone has the same feeling than me on this.

On the other hand, it is a bit annoying to see three or four times the same post reshared by three or four persons. I don’t know if anyone has the same feeling than me on this.

You're not the only person who dislikes seeing multiple reshares in the stream. However, that is a different issue, and the solution to that is to aggregate reshares in the stream.

Well, aggregate the reshares causes pretty the same issue. Consider this :

Someone posts something to call for help. Obviously, one of you contacts reshares this. If you want to comment this, what will you comment ? The original post or your friend's reshare ?

I feel that the problem is a bit complicated.