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On my social site we have over 160 different reactions, it's a constantly evolving thing reflecting current trends and memes etc (we also had them long before F
by new_guy 5y ago
On my social site we have over 160 different reactions, it's a constantly evolving thing reflecting current trends and memes etc (we also had them long before FB).
But the one thing that's really interesting is out of all the 'negative' reactions the 'dislike' was ALWAYS taken personally, people used to qualify it with a comment 'disliking the post, not you' etc. And if they didn't the OP would take it personally.
But when we renamed it from 'dislike' to 'disagree' that problem just evaporated. Human nature is just weird.
- Angostura 5y agoDislike is more emotionally loaded. It's also ambiguous - do you dislike the comment, or do you dislike the commenter? You can't "disagree the commenter"
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoWhat if the "New post" form required users to choose between "Like/Dislike" or "Other people need to see this/Other people don't need to see this" for their posts' rating? That way it separates the content's "likeability" from people's desire to spread it. I'm thinking of things like Tiananmen Square protest aftermath photos: people don't want to "like" it, but I'm sure they'd agree that people need to see them.
- celeritascelery 5y agoI feel like “other people should not see this” is already the function of a downvote. Problem is, it is used for two different kinds of content; spam/trolling and “things I have a negative ideological reaction to”. And no person wants to admit it’s the second one when they are downvoting.