Hereâs a version thatâs probably closer to what would actually work for me:
Now all four are closer to being conceptual primitives for me. đ is âgood on all the dimensionsâ; â is âbad on all the dimensionsâ.
The facepalm emoji is meant to evoke a specific emotional reaction: that exasperated feeling I get when I see someone saying a thing thatâs technically true but is totally irrelevant, or counter-productive. (Colored purple because purple is an âambiguous but bad-leaningâ color, e.g., in Hollywood movies, and is associated with villainy and trolling.)
Neither of these emotional reactions capture the range of situations where Iâd want to vote (true,bad) or (false,good). But my goal is to give me a vivid, salient handle at all on what the symbols might mean, at a glance; I think the hard part for me is rapidly distinguishing the symbols at all when there are so many options, not so much âfiguring out the True Meaning of the symbol once Iâve distinguished it from the other threeâ.
I donât like my own proposals, so do the disagree-votes mean that you agree with me that these are bad proposals, or do they mean you disagree with me and think theyâre good? :P
For what itâs worth, the head icon doesnât read to me at all like a condescending head-shake. My brain parses it as âcontented face plus haloâ.
Hereâs a version thatâs probably closer to what would actually work for me:
Now all four are closer to being conceptual primitives for me. đ is âgood on all the dimensionsâ; â is âbad on all the dimensionsâ.
The facepalm emoji is meant to evoke a specific emotional reaction: that exasperated feeling I get when I see someone saying a thing thatâs technically true but is totally irrelevant, or counter-productive. (Colored purple because purple is an âambiguous but bad-leaningâ color, e.g., in Hollywood movies, and is associated with villainy and trolling.)
The shaking-head icon is meant to evoke another emotional reaction: the feeling of being a teacher whoâs happy with their studentâs performance, but is condescendingly shaking their head to say âNo, you got the wrong answerâ. (Colored blue because blue is âambiguous but good-leaningâ and is associated with innocence and youthful naĂŻvetĂ©.)
Neither of these emotional reactions capture the range of situations where Iâd want to vote (true,bad) or (false,good). But my goal is to give me a vivid, salient handle at all on what the symbols might mean, at a glance; I think the hard part for me is rapidly distinguishing the symbols at all when there are so many options, not so much âfiguring out the True Meaning of the symbol once Iâve distinguished it from the other threeâ.
I donât like my own proposals, so do the disagree-votes mean that you agree with me that these are bad proposals, or do they mean you disagree with me and think theyâre good? :P
(I should have phrased this as a bald assertion rather than a question, so people could (dis)agree with it to efficiently reply. :P)
For me it meant âI think this is a bad proposalâ.
For what itâs worth, the head icon doesnât read to me at all like a condescending head-shake. My brain parses it as âcontented face plus haloâ.