There is currently an admin-only page that shows a list of all comments that have been reacted to (in chronological order). Periodically I think “it might just be nice to show this to everyone, and to let them filter by individual reacts, or individual users.”
The reason individual reacts might be nice is to filter for things like “what comments/posts got the ‘changed my mind?’ react”, or other reacts that stand out as some kind of an important signal.
The reason being able to follow an individual’s reacts might be nice is that you might think an individual has interesting taste, and want to see things they publicly reacted to, browsing it for good reading. (I know people who used to follow individual’s likes on twitter as a particularly good way to get a curated feed)
The reason you might not want this is that, while reacts are public, making it super legible and easy to follow a given individual might make people more self-conscious about reacting to things, and think of it as more of a performative act.
There are degrees of accessibility, ranging from “on a user’s profile there’s a button you can click taking you to a public react page filtered for that user” to “there’s an obscure link somewhere to the /reacts page that a small percentage of users find out about and use.”
Curious what people think about this. Does the cost seem significant? Does the upside seem significant?
Edit: also, what do you think about having a page that lets you see recent reacts of a given type, but doesn’t let you filter by user?
Would you benefit from, or object to, a page with LW users’ reacts?
There is currently an admin-only page that shows a list of all comments that have been reacted to (in chronological order). Periodically I think “it might just be nice to show this to everyone, and to let them filter by individual reacts, or individual users.”
The reason individual reacts might be nice is to filter for things like “what comments/posts got the ‘changed my mind?’ react”, or other reacts that stand out as some kind of an important signal.
The reason being able to follow an individual’s reacts might be nice is that you might think an individual has interesting taste, and want to see things they publicly reacted to, browsing it for good reading. (I know people who used to follow individual’s likes on twitter as a particularly good way to get a curated feed)
The reason you might not want this is that, while reacts are public, making it super legible and easy to follow a given individual might make people more self-conscious about reacting to things, and think of it as more of a performative act.
There are degrees of accessibility, ranging from “on a user’s profile there’s a button you can click taking you to a public react page filtered for that user” to “there’s an obscure link somewhere to the
/reactspage that a small percentage of users find out about and use.”Curious what people think about this. Does the cost seem significant? Does the upside seem significant?
Edit: also, what do you think about having a page that lets you see recent reacts of a given type, but doesn’t let you filter by user?