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This use case is already covered by reactions. The set of reactions available is community-specific, and I think is also per category. If you feel a reaction is missing but would be useful, bring ...
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#2: Post edited
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Canina
·
2024-02-26T12:55:17Z (10 months ago)
- **This use case is already covered by reactions.**
- The set of reactions available is community-specific, and I think is also per category. If you feel a reaction is missing but would be useful, bring that up in the community's Meta category, which is where community decisions are discussed.
- **Votes should remain low-friction.** If people have to go through a convoluted process just to express their opinion about a post, we would almost certainly have much less voting, resulting in correspondingly less content curation.
- Yes, plain votes are somewhat subjective; and that's a good thing. On the whole, it tends to even out and voting coalesces into some kind of numerical quality metric for the post.
- **This use case is already covered by reactions.**
- The set of reactions available is community-specific, and I think is also per category. If you feel a reaction is missing but would be useful, bring that up in the community's Meta category, which is where community decisions are discussed.
- If a post isn't as clear as it would need to be in an ideal world, then leave a comment and request clarification.
- **Votes should remain low-friction.** If people have to go through a convoluted process just to express their opinion about a post, we would almost certainly have much less voting, resulting in correspondingly less content curation.
- Yes, plain votes are somewhat subjective; and that's a good thing. On the whole, it tends to even out and voting coalesces into some kind of numerical quality metric for the post.
#1: Initial revision
by
Canina
·
2024-02-26T07:25:52Z (10 months ago)
**This use case is already covered by reactions.** The set of reactions available is community-specific, and I think is also per category. If you feel a reaction is missing but would be useful, bring that up in the community's Meta category, which is where community decisions are discussed. **Votes should remain low-friction.** If people have to go through a convoluted process just to express their opinion about a post, we would almost certainly have much less voting, resulting in correspondingly less content curation. Yes, plain votes are somewhat subjective; and that's a good thing. On the whole, it tends to even out and voting coalesces into some kind of numerical quality metric for the post.