We had an earlier iteration of the design where each react was basically a dimension where it made sense to have positives and negatives, and it IMO constrained the space of reacts too much.
The primary point of the anti-react system is as a corrective system that I expect to be used relatively rarely (but that I do think is important to exist). While I agree that some reactions have meaningful opposites that one might be tempted to express with an anti-react, the right thing to do IMO is to provide another react with the opposite meaning, so that you can see them both side-by-side.
This seems right to me since e.g. if someone were to use anti-excitement to indicate “this is draining” there’d then be an issue of how someone else might see this and then wonder how best to express they think it’s actually pretty neutral rather than draining (since, while excitement cancels out anti-excitement, indicating excitement itself wouldn’t be truth-tracking in this case).
We had an earlier iteration of the design where each react was basically a dimension where it made sense to have positives and negatives, and it IMO constrained the space of reacts too much.
The primary point of the anti-react system is as a corrective system that I expect to be used relatively rarely (but that I do think is important to exist). While I agree that some reactions have meaningful opposites that one might be tempted to express with an anti-react, the right thing to do IMO is to provide another react with the opposite meaning, so that you can see them both side-by-side.
This seems right to me since e.g. if someone were to use anti-excitement to indicate “this is draining” there’d then be an issue of how someone else might see this and then wonder how best to express they think it’s actually pretty neutral rather than draining (since, while excitement cancels out anti-excitement, indicating excitement itself wouldn’t be truth-tracking in this case).