I’ve hovered over them to see the applicable text or lack thereof before, yes, and I was aware that both types of reaction were possible. Overall I don’t have a clear enough memory to say why I didn’t pick up on this connection sooner, but my off-the-cuff guess would be that seeing both inline-portion and whole-comment reactions on the same comment is rare, which would mean there wasn’t a clear juxtaposition to show that it’s only present sometimes, and my visual processing would likely have discarded the cartouche as a decorative separator.
I’ve hovered over them to see the applicable text or lack thereof before, yes, and I was aware that both types of reaction were possible. Overall I don’t have a clear enough memory to say why I didn’t pick up on this connection sooner, but my off-the-cuff guess would be that seeing both inline-portion and whole-comment reactions on the same comment is rare, which would mean there wasn’t a clear juxtaposition to show that it’s only present sometimes, and my visual processing would likely have discarded the cartouche as a decorative separator.