I haven’t seen any discussion about this part of the motivation for reactions:
In my experience, seeing a list of names that I respect, marked as having reacted positively to my writing, feels much more motivating than a high karma number. Conversely, seeing negative reactions from names I don’t respect feels less bad than a low karma number. And seeing a mixed reaction, with positive reactions from people I recognize and negative reactions from people I don’t, creates a feeling of community.
That does NOT match my experience, and it anti-matches the experience I want to promote. I think it’s overall good to make names visible near the opinions they endorse, but I would not want it to be a primary element of the display. I do take the username into account when deciding how much effort to put into a very long post or comment, but I wish it weren’t the case—I’m sure I miss out on some good content, and I’m equally sure that I waste a lot of time on names I recognize but the post isn’t worth the effort.
I don’t want there to be isolated sub-communities inside LW—if your “feeling of community” is limited to a subset of users who’ve become familiar to you, I think that’s a loss.
Relatedly, I haven’t checked if this setting interacts with reactions, and… I was about to say “presumably it should”, but the names don’t show for reactions until you hover over it anyway, and so probably it wouldn’t have any additional effect?
I haven’t seen any discussion about this part of the motivation for reactions:
That does NOT match my experience, and it anti-matches the experience I want to promote. I think it’s overall good to make names visible near the opinions they endorse, but I would not want it to be a primary element of the display. I do take the username into account when deciding how much effort to put into a very long post or comment, but I wish it weren’t the case—I’m sure I miss out on some good content, and I’m equally sure that I waste a lot of time on names I recognize but the post isn’t worth the effort.
I don’t want there to be isolated sub-communities inside LW—if your “feeling of community” is limited to a subset of users who’ve become familiar to you, I think that’s a loss.
Relatedly, I haven’t checked if this setting interacts with reactions, and… I was about to say “presumably it should”, but the names don’t show for reactions until you hover over it anyway, and so probably it wouldn’t have any additional effect?