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Best unintended consequence of GitHub adding comment "reactions" is the redditification of discussions (thumbs up/down brigading). Lovely.
by superswordfish 10y ago
Best unintended consequence of GitHub adding comment "reactions" is the redditification of discussions (thumbs up/down brigading). Lovely.
- Karunamon 10y agoUnlike Reddit, no action is taken upon a certain number of "reactions". Your comment isn't censored after receiving an arbitrary amount of :-1: 's
- sethish 10y agoThey added the buttons so brigades would use those instead of commenting.
- eric_h 10y agoYeah, I honestly think it's an improvement. +1 ;)
- superswordfish 10y agoGitHub never would have had that problem in the first place if :+1: were not so easy to do. There's no reason to make emoji part of GitHub flavored markdown or for it to be an autocomplete.
- pimlottc 10y agoPeople have used plaintext "+1"'s for ages, I wasn't even aware there was markup for it now.
- eric_h 10y agoThere is now no longer a reason to make emoji as part of the markdown, as the vast majority of devices can now do it natively. When Github flavored markdown was first created, emojis were most certainly not at all widespread natively.
- superswordfish 10y agoNot quite, it's difficult to avoid using votes as a heuristic for post quality. A reader's first impression of a heavily downvoted comment is negative. It encourages groupthink, downvoted comments are unacceptable, and serve as examples to others who might step out of line. Also, there is less pause when downvoting a comment if it is already well in the negative. When you think about it, the whole downvoting thing is antisocial. It's bizarre that almost every popular discussion platform these days allows users to passively shit on each other as a core feature.
- Karunamon 10y agoIn a system that doesn't rank, sort, hide, distinguish, or otherwise do anything other than increment a counter next to a post... huh? Groupthink: You mean a community that downvotes a comment about X suddenly has a positive notion about X because the votes are hidden? An example to others: I see this as a good thing - it lets an outsider get a good feel for what community members like. A number is much easier to parse than thousands of comments. "Shitting on others" is a very melodramatic way of "people saying they don't like a comment with numbers".
- Senji 10y agoOpen a request to github to enable per repository/org disabling of voting.
- laurent123456 10y agoIf only it was just thumb down and up, but it's also smiley faces, fireworks, hearts and probably many more. It feels like reading a conversation between teenagers on MSN Messenger.
- FussyZeus 10y agoThis is such an old fud thing to say. As if using an emoji wasn't a mainstream thing for the vast majority of people to do. Personally I like the inflections and emoji brings, plus it makes statements that might otherwise be taken as hostile either as well intentioned or just good old fashioned ribbing.
- laurent123456 10y agoIn the semi-professional context of a PR discussion, all these big emoticons are a bit out of place.
- jessaustin 10y agoYou're trying to hold back the tide. If anything PR seems to be driving this sort of thing now.
- saint_fiasco 10y agoAre you guys talking about Public Relations or Pull Requests?
- yellowapple 10y agoYes.
- Senji 10y ago>As if using an emoji wasn't a mainstream thing for the vast majority of people to do. It shouldn't be. Fuck emoji.
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- eric_h 10y agoFortunately the "reactions" are purely metadata, and do not effect the visibility of the comments. Who cares if there are a million thumbs down.