I wondered if that is what you meant. Imagine scrolling down the list of comments, seeing so very many entries that add nothing to the conversation besides an additional assent / detraction / reaction to it, above and beyond what the voting already shows.
^THIS
And my axe!
I also choose OP’s mom…
“Reactions” such as this take up attention, and detract from conversations. And most importantly, they do not scale well: 10-100 of those is nothing at all like 10-100 emoji reactions.
We CAN have our cake AND eat it too - we can both get our emotional highs from adding a satisfying emoji reaction, while also doing so in a manner that preserves readability of the conversational, threaded forum-style comment structure.
Also, the presence of the possibility of emoji reactions in no way prevents someone from still submitting a traditional comment. In fact, I’m doing so right now…
It’s good to have choices. :-)
Edit: Also, I included a link demonstrating that it is not, in fact, “instance specific”? Perhaps you meant platform specific? Anyway, you do seem correct that I did not properly deduce whatever it was that you could have meant with your words.
WHOOOOOOOOSH
I was talking about in text emojis.
I wondered if that is what you meant. Imagine scrolling down the list of comments, seeing so very many entries that add nothing to the conversation besides an additional assent / detraction / reaction to it, above and beyond what the voting already shows.
“Reactions” such as this take up attention, and detract from conversations. And most importantly, they do not scale well: 10-100 of those is nothing at all like 10-100 emoji reactions.
We CAN have our cake AND eat it too - we can both get our emotional highs from adding a satisfying emoji reaction, while also doing so in a manner that preserves readability of the conversational, threaded forum-style comment structure.
Also, the presence of the possibility of emoji reactions in no way prevents someone from still submitting a traditional comment. In fact, I’m doing so right now…
It’s good to have choices. :-)
Edit: Also, I included a link demonstrating that it is not, in fact, “instance specific”? Perhaps you meant platform specific? Anyway, you do seem correct that I did not properly deduce whatever it was that you could have meant with your words.
Thats fair, and it’s also a bigger problem now that people are using bots to feign user engagement.