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I think if anything, a double green check would mean the opposite: The point of the check mark is that it indicates you have read the message even if you haven'
by xg15 3y ago
I think if anything, a double green check would mean the opposite: The point of the check mark is that it indicates you have read the message even if you haven't (yet) given a reply.
It doesn't tell why you didn't answer: if you just didn't get around to answering yet or if you don't want to answer on purpose. (But of course it offers the suggestion of the latter. Hence "left me on read" being a thing where "no reply" is seen as an act of communication itself.)
But there is no situation in which it indicates approval.
So if anything, "double green check without any reply" could be interpreted as declining a contract offer. But even this would be a stretch, I think.
- weinzierl 3y agoContext is everything. A green check mark is clearly an affirmative. If it is in your messenger it can mean "read, but no reply". If you send a check mark as an answer to a bid, I can hardly imagine anyone interpreting this as anything else as an acceptance. The more interesting case would be an X mark. While this is often interpreted as the opposite of a check mark there are contexts where it is affirmative. Best known example is probably election ballot papers. Not so well know nowadays is that the blind and illiterate used the X to sign contracts.
- xg15 3y agoYeah, but a green checkmark emoji is something different than the "message was read" icon the GP was talking about. I don't think any average user would confuse the two and neither would a judge.
- weinzierl 3y agoYou wouldn't send the "message was read" icon in a message, would you? And even if, the sender would probably just read it as two green check marks. That's what I meant with context is everything.