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Jack,
Let me have a try at alleviating some of the confusion. First, with respect to the "Featured Thread" votes, that only applies to opening posts on three presentation forums: Nature & Wildlife, People Photography, and Landscape. Threads opened on any other forum will not have that button, regardless of whether or not they contain images.
As for the multi-quote button, it appears once a user makes a post following the opening post in a thread. This allows someone who, for example, is the third poster in a thread and wishes to quote the original poster and second poster, to do so easily and in an orderly fashion. Previous to Fred implementing this feature, the third poster would have to either make two separate posts quoting each of the previous two posters, or format his post manually to clearly attribute quotes and replies to the respective posters. Multi-quote is a simple way to select posts before the one you're about to make and quote them in sequence with the proper formatting.
In a post above, you posted a screenshot of the thread opened by user "eeneryma" which contains an image. Since it was not posted in one of the three presentation forums, there is no "Featured Thread" voting option. Also, since it was an opening post in a thread — image or no image — there is no multi-quote option since that is the only post in the thread.* Your post immediately above this one has a multi-quote option since there is a plurality of posts in this thread.
As to Fred's rationale for "Featured Thread" instead of "likes" in presentation forums, he mentioned that he would like to see more discussion of images in those fora, as opposed to people simply clicking on "like" and moving on. Therefore, "likes" are disabled for opening posts on those forums, but are enabled for subsequent posts.
Hope that helps!
* that thread now has more than one post, so you can see the multi-quote option below both:
https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1420777
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