I am most worried that this will drastically increase the clutter of comment threads and make things a lot harder to parse. In particular if the order of the reacts is different on each comment, since then there is no reliable way of scanning for the different kinds of information.
I like the reactions UI above, partly because separating it from karma makes it clearer that it’s not changing how comments get sorted, and partly because I do want ‘agree’/‘disagree’ to be non-anonymous by default (unlike normal karma).
I agree that the order of reacts should always be the same. I also think every comment/post should display all the reacts (even just to say ‘0 Agree, 0 Disagree...‘) to keep things uniform. That means I think there should only be a few permitted reacts—maybe start with just ‘Agree’ and ‘Disagree’, then wait 6+ months and see if users are especially clambering for something extra.
I think the obvious other reacts I’d want to use sometimes are ‘agree and downvote’ + ‘disagree and upvote’ (maybe shorten to Agree+Down, Disagree+Up), since otherwise someone might not realize that one and the same person is doing both, which loses a fair amount of this thing I want to be fluidly able to signal. (I don’t think there’s much value to clearly signaling that the same person agreed and upvoted or disagree and downvoted a thing.)
I would also sometimes click both the ‘agree’ and ‘disagree’ buttons, which I think is fine to allow under this UI. :)
I like the reactions UI above, partly because separating it from karma makes it clearer that it’s not changing how comments get sorted, and partly because I do want ‘agree’/‘disagree’ to be non-anonymous by default (unlike normal karma).
I agree that the order of reacts should always be the same. I also think every comment/post should display all the reacts (even just to say ‘0 Agree, 0 Disagree...‘) to keep things uniform. That means I think there should only be a few permitted reacts—maybe start with just ‘Agree’ and ‘Disagree’, then wait 6+ months and see if users are especially clambering for something extra.
I think the obvious other reacts I’d want to use sometimes are ‘agree and downvote’ + ‘disagree and upvote’ (maybe shorten to Agree+Down, Disagree+Up), since otherwise someone might not realize that one and the same person is doing both, which loses a fair amount of this thing I want to be fluidly able to signal. (I don’t think there’s much value to clearly signaling that the same person agreed and upvoted or disagree and downvoted a thing.)
I would also sometimes click both the ‘agree’ and ‘disagree’ buttons, which I think is fine to allow under this UI. :)