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?
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Based on the feedback here, we’d def add a UI option to hide them.
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.
Sounds good!
yay
This is one of the most civilized, better argumented and well exposed discussions thata I seen in the internet in a long time.
i think i’d be cute. tho i think they’d be more suitable for comments rather than posts
What about using :) ;) ^^ -.- instead?
Sounds good for me :D
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?)
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…
You haven’t been around people long enough =P
Wouldn’t that take away a bit of the sense of the voting system?
I’m genuinely not sure yet how I feel about emoji reactions (I’ve never really used them or even thought about them) but I really feel like they don’t take away from the voting system.
The arrow voting system’s primary function is (or should be) sorting, and usually its secondary function is the agree/disagree button (if it weren’t that way, votes would be just hearts like in Discourse). I’ve for a while now thought it might be beneficial for those two functions to be separate. In essence, and I never saw this implemented, I’ve imagined a comment system with two scores, one is the standard up-arrow/down-arrow score, for example in the reddit UI in the top left of a comment, and the second one is the approve/disapprove score, in the reddit UI paradigm, in the lower right (either as thumbs-up/down buttons, or as heart/upside-down heart buttons, or smiley/frowny buttons, or heart/broken heart buttons, or whatever. The second score, of course. wouldn’t influence sorting, it would just be a visual marker of the comment’s approval.
Plenty of times, I thought a comment contributed to a discussion, was well written, made me think, and I thought more people should see it, but I actually disagreed with its conclusions, so I second guessed if I should upvote it. Or the opposite, I thought a comment was a bit of topic, but it made me laugh, and I wanted it lower sorted but also somehow appreciated. This was all particularly relevant with many many comments in large threads where sorting is important and valuable, not so much on current small scale lemmy.
Either way, I feel emoji reactions would solve this problem, but they might bring in new ones. I haven’t really thought about them too much.
It’s hard to come up with a universally great commenting/voting system. Some times I think HN’s bare bones system is better, sometimes I want to count the downvotes like on lemmy, sometimes I want something in between. And maybe, sometimes emoji’s are good, I don’t know.
