Yeah, I agree with this. I think they are generally decent on comments, but some users really spam them on posts. It’s on my list to improve the UI for that.
Seems like a signal-to-noise problem. Some amount seems like a useful signal, but too much is too hard to digest. Privileges based on karma make some sense but restricting it based on time (1/day/user or something) seems pretty crude, so I don’t like that idea.
Not sure if this is a good idea either, but the number of reacts allowed per post could be based on the amount of karma that user generated on comments on that post. That way, a user who’s doing too many reacts would be encouraged to just write a comment instead. That still doesn’t seem like exactly the right incentive, but I’m also not sure how I want it to work.
Maybe the ability to filter out reacts from a particular (prolific) user would suffice?
Do you have any thoughts on those UI improvement written down anywhere?
I’ll admit to being one of the users that really spams reactions on posts. I like them as a form of highlighting for review and as a form of backchannel communication. I would be much happier if people would use more reacts towards me. So I would be upset with UI modifications to restrict reacts, but fully support updates to make the UI around viewing reacts cleaner and more useful.
Yeah, I agree with this. I think they are generally decent on comments, but some users really spam them on posts. It’s on my list to improve the UI for that.
Seems like a signal-to-noise problem. Some amount seems like a useful signal, but too much is too hard to digest. Privileges based on karma make some sense but restricting it based on time (1/day/user or something) seems pretty crude, so I don’t like that idea.
Not sure if this is a good idea either, but the number of reacts allowed per post could be based on the amount of karma that user generated on comments on that post. That way, a user who’s doing too many reacts would be encouraged to just write a comment instead. That still doesn’t seem like exactly the right incentive, but I’m also not sure how I want it to work.
Maybe the ability to filter out reacts from a particular (prolific) user would suffice?
Yeah I would like to mute some users site-wide so that I never see reacts from them & their comments are hidden by default....
Do you have any thoughts on those UI improvement written down anywhere?
I’ll admit to being one of the users that really spams reactions on posts. I like them as a form of highlighting for review and as a form of backchannel communication. I would be much happier if people would use more reacts towards me. So I would be upset with UI modifications to restrict reacts, but fully support updates to make the UI around viewing reacts cleaner and more useful.
I wrote a longer comment with some feature suggestions. If you have time it would be nice to hear your thoughts.