Maybe you can contact the site's owner, JacobJ, through PM and ask him about it. Sounds like a glitch. I think I have always had the like button available.
Thank you for the suggestion. In the process of sending a PM, I read a thread about ads. That gave me an idea, so I did some digging... the culprit is "Fanboy's Social Blocking List". Problem solved!
I access this site on a PC and there is no like button. All I can see is the list of people who liked a post, but I do not have the ability to like a post.
I think it depends on the ad blocker. It might also have something to do with using a VPN to access the sight. Not sure but throwing it out there.
THANK YOU!!!! I can confirm that the AdBlock Plus plugin does remove the "Like This" function from this forum (at least in Firefox). I disabled it for this forum and VOILA, the "Like This" function magically appeared.