I was mostly reacting to “I’d previously talked about how it would be neat if LW reacts specifically gave people affordance to think subtler epistemically-useful thoughts. ”, and failed my own first rule of evaluation: “compared to what?”.
As something with more variations than karma/votes, and less distracting/lower hurdle than comments, I can see reacts as filling a niche. I’d kind of lean toward more like tagging and less like 5-10 variations on a vote.
I was mostly reacting to “I’d previously talked about how it would be neat if LW reacts specifically gave people affordance to think subtler epistemically-useful thoughts. ”, and failed my own first rule of evaluation: “compared to what?”.
As something with more variations than karma/votes, and less distracting/lower hurdle than comments, I can see reacts as filling a niche. I’d kind of lean toward more like tagging and less like 5-10 variations on a vote.