Clarification re “emojis can’t be upvoted or downvoted”, which @the gears to ascension and @mruwnik would bet is false. I mean that if I give an emoji react to a post saying “not worth getting into”, I can’t get karma votes on that emoji, whereas if I give a text reply to a post saying the same thing, it can get karma votes and replies from people who think it is getting into. Since I don’t want to get into meta-discussions about whether a comment is worth replying to, or have such choices judged by others, that is a feature. I’m interested if I’m missing something here.
Good point. I further feature-suggest that if the author replies “Offtopic” and someone downvotes that it is ontopic, I still want to see the author’s react. Maybe that could be “📌 Habryka −1″.
That is literally what happens! Hidden reacts show up in a small menu in the bottom right corner, and when you hover over that you can see both “upvotes” and “downvotes” on the react:
I wasn’t clear (I should have made a mockup, sorry). I don’t think the author’s react should be in hover-text, I think it should be inline text visible by default without the reader needing to hover anywhere. At least on desktop, anyway. Currently just the react and the number is visible by default.
Clarification re “emojis can’t be upvoted or downvoted”, which @the gears to ascension and @mruwnik would bet is false. I mean that if I give an emoji react to a post saying “not worth getting into”, I can’t get karma votes on that emoji, whereas if I give a text reply to a post saying the same thing, it can get karma votes and replies from people who think it is getting into. Since I don’t want to get into meta-discussions about whether a comment is worth replying to, or have such choices judged by others, that is a feature. I’m interested if I’m missing something here.
I think the reactions are just because de-facto you can vote on reacts:
That’s what the vote button in the bottom right corners are for. You can downvote a react, and if net votes go to zero, it disappears.
Good point. I further feature-suggest that if the author replies “Offtopic” and someone downvotes that it is ontopic, I still want to see the author’s react. Maybe that could be “📌 Habryka −1″.
That is literally what happens! Hidden reacts show up in a small menu in the bottom right corner, and when you hover over that you can see both “upvotes” and “downvotes” on the react:
I wasn’t clear (I should have made a mockup, sorry). I don’t think the author’s react should be in hover-text, I think it should be inline text visible by default without the reader needing to hover anywhere. At least on desktop, anyway. Currently just the react and the number is visible by default.