As an interesting extra, there’s been a change to count all Reactions as Likes in terms of badges and behind the scenes metrics. I don’t think it’ll make too much difference to us, but I thought it worth noting. [1]
I like having a selection, even if some are used only rarely. I do think ‘positive only’ is the best approach, though in some cases even ones like can be used to agree with the content of what someone has written rather than a judgement against it (I’m not advocating for that particular one, just an example ).
As a lot can be context dependent, I think there should also be stricter sanctions for people who use them to troll people. I don’t see it as any different to leaving a shitty comment.
There is also a setting to deliberately not include specific ones as Likes, but I’m not sure we need it ↩︎
Great to see an emoji review, I never really understood the meaning of to me it always seemed quite rude, but maybe thats just my interpretation of it.
I agree with @Peitho’s list of emojis, I don’t think we need any others to replace them or to be added on.
Looks like the general consensus is to remove have a smaller selection I’ve removed the least used emojis - if we find we are missing a reaction we can look to add new ones in the future!
I absolutely hate the thumbs up Emoji. I really try and avoid it. The worst is when people use in messenger or texting. It’s so dam lazy in my opinion. I thought it was a yonger generation thing aswell, but the older ones constantly use it. I’d rather a comment every single time.