I think of Reacts as being more like little mini pre-made comments that fill the niche of things that seem too minor to be worth the trouble of typing up as a regular comment. Either it’s something like “I really liked this” where it feels like it’d be cluttered for a lot of people to write this most of the time[1], or also that writing it as a comment invites one to more discussion or obligates to say more on the topic when all they wanted to do was say “I found this confusing” and not get sucked into a bigger thing.
There’s also a thing in that having particular Reacts means the site is offering you affordance to say that thing, normalizing it. Which seems good.
I think of Reacts as being more like little mini pre-made comments that fill the niche of things that seem too minor to be worth the trouble of typing up as a regular comment. Either it’s something like “I really liked this” where it feels like it’d be cluttered for a lot of people to write this most of the time[1], or also that writing it as a comment invites one to more discussion or obligates to say more on the topic when all they wanted to do was say “I found this confusing” and not get sucked into a bigger thing.
There’s also a thing in that having particular Reacts means the site is offering you affordance to say that thing, normalizing it. Which seems good.
What actually happens if that if one person writes this, the next person will upvote that comment as a kind of pseudo-react, in a way.