I find myself using them on pretty much every platform that has them: matrix, masto, discord, etc.

These would be completely separate from votes, and have no affect on sorting.

What do you think the positives and negatives would be of having them?

    • DessalinesOPA
      3·
      3 years ago

      I agree… similar to how we have the option to hide vote scores, we’d add an option to hide reactions.

  • Maya
    13·
    3 years ago

    I do love them, but it’d be hard for them to not get real visually noisy. Also they’d need to be moddable (ex: racists using monkey emojis to harass). Also would they be anonymous the way vote counts are? I think they’re a really fun feature but need careful thought before UI incorporation. (ooh, maybe they’d make sense to keep pretty small and have in a similar position to where Reddit puts comment gilding?)

    • DessalinesOPA
      13·
      3 years ago

      For the UI, I was thinking they’d look similar to discord reactions, small, grouped, and at the bottom:

      I was originally thinking anonymous, but I never thought of ppl using them for nefarious purposes…

      • Thann
        4·
        3 years ago

        You haven’t been around people long enough =P

  • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    3 years ago

    All platforms seem to have them now, except they make theirs paid. Think about it: custom emojis linked to your instance that work cross-instances. And why stop there? Use all emojis from other instances that are federated to yours as well. All free, without limitations, for all users.

    Argument 2: they’re just fun.

    Argument 3: reactions can cut down on useless replies. Many forums have had a “thanks” system in place for years before it was popular and I think it helps cut down on “came here to say this” or “+1” replies. Scratches that itch of not being the first one to offer a solution.

  • Sr Estegosaurio
    11·
    3 years ago

    This is one of the most civilized, better argumented and well exposed discussions thata I seen in the internet in a long time.

    • Peter1986c
      1·
      3 years ago

      It would not be well-understood by Gen Z. :P

      Millenials are the last gen (in the West) to have grown up with the old-school style of typing emoticons, I think. But that may be just my impression.

  • Thann
    8·
    3 years ago

    One possible implementation would be coalescing “single-glyph-responses” into a “reaction count” on the ui-layer. so instead of seeing several identical comments like: 👍, its visually more like slack, but on the backend its just a regular comment 🤔

  • daojones
    81·
    3 years ago

    I love them because it gives you a succinct way to reply without having to type out a response.

  • TheConquestOfBed
    7·
    3 years ago

    Not super necessary, imo. But custom emojis would be nice and they seem to draw more people to a platform.

  • ✨ krawieck ✨
    81·
    3 years ago

    i think i’d be cute. tho i think they’d be more suitable for comments rather than posts

  • M500
    6·
    3 years ago

    I’m in favor of them. It’s kind of like Reddit awards but without having to pay for them.

    Maybe the community would have a kind of culture around them were 🦃 is like the best emoji you could give a post.

    It wouldn’t really make any sense but it works still be part of the culture of this platform.