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It isn't distasteful, it is harmful. I asked a question recently to someone and got a "like" back as the "answer". I then spent one minute pondering wtf this
by frumiousirc 2y ago
It isn't distasteful, it is harmful.
I asked a question recently to someone and got a "like" back as the "answer". I then spent one minute pondering wtf this message even was (it was the first of its kind that I received) and another pondering wtf the respondent meant as the question was not of the form "do you like XXX?".
This "feature", at least in this case, was not a form of communication of but a disruptive form of confusion.
This "feature" is not just distasteful but actively harmful and anti to accepted email communication norms. On Slack it's annoying enough but it's a norm so it is merely distasteful.
In email, I see it as yet another EEE method from Microsoft.
- snapcaster 2y agoI guess i fail to see how your example is different from someone responding with "K" or some other equally unhelpful non-reaction response
- Gormo 2y ago"K" is usually a short form of "okay", which is either an affirmative response to a yes/no question, or an acknowledgment of receiving an informmational message, depending on context. In most cases, this is a useful response. Asking a question and getting "I like your question" as the sole response is incredibly obnoxious.
- 9dev 2y agoAre you seriously telling me you’re interpreting a thumb up emoji as a literal I like X, instead of applying a little common sense and infer that they probably meant to say „okay“ with that?
- Gormo 2y agoI suppose I'd interpret an thumbs-up emoji as "okay" if that were what I saw, but when the server is translating that into an email response that says someone liked my last email, that muddles things up quite a bit.