The way I’d implicitly been thinking is “Reacts would be added to a particular comment, and probably live on that comment forever, but not contribute to any kind of long term metrics.”
I was thinking of them mostly as “very lightweight comments, which are easier to see at a glance.”
In some cases I saw them as trying to provide an outlet for lightweight-feedback other than votes, for feedback (such as “yay/boo” that I don’t think should ideally be handled by the voting system)
Cool, I like having reacts tied to ideas and expressions rather than to people.
Your comment about feedback other than votes makes me wonder, though—wouldn’t it be in addition to votes? Do you expect people to react and not vote (or vote and not react) very often? I rarely (not never, but not usually) comment without voting.
Hmm. Don’t know the common use cases but once I’m having a conversation in a thread, I usually only upvote things if they seem particularly good or bad, or particularly standalone. (in particular when there’s a high volume of comments in the thread)
Ah, true. deep comment threads are different. I vote on most posts I comment on, and most top-level comments that I reply to. I generally only vote on deeper comments if that’s where I’m entering the conversation.
The way I’d implicitly been thinking is “Reacts would be added to a particular comment, and probably live on that comment forever, but not contribute to any kind of long term metrics.”
I was thinking of them mostly as “very lightweight comments, which are easier to see at a glance.”
In some cases I saw them as trying to provide an outlet for lightweight-feedback other than votes, for feedback (such as “yay/boo” that I don’t think should ideally be handled by the voting system)
Cool, I like having reacts tied to ideas and expressions rather than to people.
Your comment about feedback other than votes makes me wonder, though—wouldn’t it be in addition to votes? Do you expect people to react and not vote (or vote and not react) very often? I rarely (not never, but not usually) comment without voting.
Hmm. Don’t know the common use cases but once I’m having a conversation in a thread, I usually only upvote things if they seem particularly good or bad, or particularly standalone. (in particular when there’s a high volume of comments in the thread)
Ah, true. deep comment threads are different. I vote on most posts I comment on, and most top-level comments that I reply to. I generally only vote on deeper comments if that’s where I’m entering the conversation.