For what it’s worth—I see value in votes being public by default. It can be very useful to see who upvoted or downvoted your comment. Of course then people will use the upvote feature just to indicate they read a post, but that’s OK (we are familiar with that system from Facebook, Twitter, etc).
I’m pretty apathetic about all the other proposals here. Reactions seem to me to be unnecessary distractions. [side note—emojiis are very ambiguous so it’s good you put words next to each one to explain what they are supposed to mean]. The way I would interpret reactions would be as a poll of people’s system 1 snap judgements. That is arguably useful/interesting information in many contexts but also distracting in other contexts.
For what it’s worth—I see value in votes being public by default. It can be very useful to see who upvoted or downvoted your comment. Of course then people will use the upvote feature just to indicate they read a post, but that’s OK (we are familiar with that system from Facebook, Twitter, etc).
I’m pretty apathetic about all the other proposals here. Reactions seem to me to be unnecessary distractions. [side note—emojiis are very ambiguous so it’s good you put words next to each one to explain what they are supposed to mean]. The way I would interpret reactions would be as a poll of people’s system 1 snap judgements. That is arguably useful/interesting information in many contexts but also distracting in other contexts.