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This post made me remember that I am able to put something like this onto the site. I'm up for doing it as an experiment if people want.About the Likes thing, I joined SufficientVelocity recently to vote on things and/or contrarianism-polarise myself right enough to get a job, and I quite enjoy their five-react system:
There's obviously weaknesses here, with the infrastructure as well as with the design, and there's the danger of going too far the other way and ending up like one of those Discord servers with 10000 unique emotes no-one ever uses, but I think the main problem with Likes is still that they all go into the same pot.
- Like--"I enjoyed this post about the Uruguayan electoral system", "I'm not sure what react to use", "I'm new to this forum".
- Funny--"That was a good pun about the Uruguayan electoral system", "That was a funny tweet by someone else that you shared", "You sure said the in-joke words in the right order."
- Insightful--"I now know a lot more about the Uruguayan electoral system", "That was an interesting op-ed or at least I imagine it was if I could get past this paywall", "That doesn't sound right but I don't know enough about Romania/Birmingham/why you buy tanks to dispute it."
- Informative--"Finally some fresh news about the Uruguayan electoral system", "That was an interesting article or at least I imagine it was if Reach didn't fuck up all their websites with banner ads", "Gosh that's a lot of tweets about random university students."
- Hugs--"Sorry/glad to hear that bad/good news about your family/partner/job/pets/Uruguayan electoral system".
The reason we launched with just likes is that it looks cleaner and less cluttered, but it's fair to say that some problems do exist with it.
Vote and/or say your piece here - the vote is non-binding, as it may turn out that the decent variable-likes-plugins cost money SLP can't spend on a feature like this.