Sneedforo & Reactions: The Future of Stickers

[General Emílio Médici]

Thanks for the history lesson Ooperator.

I like the current system but I am curious to try out whatever it is you are cooking.

 

[Spungus]

Keep the stickers limited, display all reaction counts to a post (don't display the ones that have zero), and something that should not be copied from Discord is for other people to click an existing react to add their own as that. If you force people to see all the reactions before clicking, then they will be less inclined to go along with the hivemind.

Retard idea spawned from @Big moth tiddies 's post: perhaps reactions to spoilers? It could be a good visual indication of the horrors that lay within while also not indicating that the user themself warranted the reaction - unless it's just containing sperging. Not sure how that could be reasonably stored in the database off the top of my head though.

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

How about a simple Bar Chart with 4-8-12 steps tied to a similar set of interactions as we have now. The Chart would show you how much of one reaction is in relation to the other reactions for a post. Say you got 4 likes, 2 dislikes and 3 autistics. So the chart would show you the likes as twice as much as the dislikes, the autistics in between and everything else at 0. That way you don't need to display a number so it's more visible, you still keep it easily readable and it's intuitive. When you click on the chart is should just show you what each user reacted with, like it does now.

 

[Quote Cursor]

Make it like Steam/Reddit where you can award posts stickers, funded by KiwiCoins™, a crypto currency tied to the Israeli Shekel. /sneed

But for seriousness, the profile Weebaboo rating system would be good, and I would prefer the Facebook style on posts. One thing that would be cool, is a 5 star system, when it comes to rating posts, like on YouTube. As others mentioned, the Discord one seems like a mess, and probably bloated. If people are into it, I guess there can be a theme or setting to make reactions look like that.

As a side question, is it possible to make a tree view option, to see a list of quote replies to a given post?

 

[Grub]

I prefer the more limited selection available currently to something like discord. It encourages people to be more creative about how they give them out.

You did not receive a score, you instead received a tally of all interactions, given and received.

This would actually be pretty cool and probably more useful than the score or the notification system that used to exist.

 

[Fungible penis]

I enjoy the democratization of reactions on discord and the fact that they display in order reacted can lead to fun word games.

YouTube also has the custom emoji packs that can be unlocked for true and honest folks, and it's a pleasantly rewarding value add for cunts with money.

Copy discord please.

 

[użytkownik]

I have no objection to the current response system. It is, in my opinion, simple and at the same time characterful. Discord's reaction system, where any unicode can be a reaction is really unnecessary. Most of them would have no meaning. In addition, the added number of reactions to each sticker is, in my opinion, uglier than the current state.

 

[ICanLurkNoMore]

honestly, rather than stealing discords, I think I'd prefer stealing Sufficient Velocity's sticker equivalent.
no idea what the hell mod they're using for xf2 but it looks like a better version of the og mod

 

[Man In A Dress]

Probably copy Discord but If people care enough, it would be cool to be able to submit unique emotes based on the thread subject

 

[BirdUp]

remove every sticker but agree and disagree

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

However you end up visually representing the stickers, would you consider making it visible on a user's Postings Tab of their profile?

It would let someone get a very quick idea of how a User is being reacted to over multiple recent posts in different or fast moving threads. If someone is having a schizophrenic break, I want to be able to look back through posts to see when it happened.

 

[Pizdec]

WRONG
You forget the most important sticker!!!

Six, you're right, we need the thunk provoking.

 

[Harvey Danger]

Discord's system sucks as much as Discord itself. It's hard to read, it conveys no information, it says nothing about post quality, the only thing it reflects is if someone did an @everyone or an admin made an announcement. It's worse than even reddit up/down votes, at least those reflect some gay community consensus.

It's probably worth piecing together something unique to KF, and tweaking it to emphasize the unique areas we discuss. To be honest the lack of the ubiquitous yellow face reacts is a big reason I like the site (the thinking react is good as a sole exception). Something like:

1) Have a base set of forum-wide standard reacts. This could be our current reacts, or a subset, like the first 10 that show up on hover. The likely candidates are the standard non-T&H, maybe without Dislike (or at least recolor it).​

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2) Add board-specific reacts, like you tried to do with XF2. Polisperging react in non-political boards, cow-specific emotes in cow-focused boards, maybe some flags for A&N, sparkly girly items for the Beauty Salon, and so on. Let threads in each board develop a micro-culture around their own reacts.​

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3) Switch the post's react tally to the old "Anime guy" display. The current abbreviated approach wouldn't work well with board-specific reacts. Showing them all would encourage using the board-specific ones.​

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4) T&H holders continue getting an extended base set to use across the entire site. Maybe they get 1-2 extra board-specific emotes, but that could be annoying to maintain and might fragment how they react everywhere. If you build the system to make it easy to add/remove new reacts, you can experiment with the correct amounts once it's live.​

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5) Sneed.​

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Retard idea spawned from @Big moth tiddies 's post: perhaps reactions to spoilers? It could be a good visual indication of the horrors that lay within while also not indicating that the user themself warranted the reaction - unless it's just containing sperging. Not sure how that could be reasonably stored in the database off the top of my head though.

That could get annoying for posts with multiple spoiler blocks, which I use all the time for boring spergery in the UFO thread. You can also nest spoilers:

Spoiler: Wow

Spoiler: Now

This

Spoiler: Is

Spoiler: Podracing

Just report the post if the user has not adequately warned of the soul crushing NSFW imagery contained within.

 

[ICanLurkNoMore]

the only thing it reflects is if someone did an @everyone or an admin made an announcement.

and more importantly, how many true and honest trannies are infesting your server.

 

[Cougar Pump]

I had a bunch of thoughts about this then realized I mostly don't care enough to defend any of them. Here's a vastly reduced list of worthless opinions:

Current system works alright, any similar system will probably work alright as well as long as the available reactions line up with the kind of trivial responses posts are likely to evoke (agree, disagree, poster is turbo mega gay, informative, etc). The measure of success here is that people don't make those trivial posts and instead react. Too much friction to reactions and it won't meet that need. Everything else seems secondary.

How about a reaction system where the reactions are only visible to the person who made the post and the person who reacted. You could still base the highlighting system off the information and it might reduce the distorted 'points scoring' aspect of the whole thing. But then, will some people feel a private reaction to the poster is insufficient, and would they then revert to making trivial reaction posts in the thread instead of reacting?

You had issues with the forum restore a while back because the way reactions were implemented was like some massive absurd table with a bajillion rows. Since you're re-implementing, consider serializing reactions as a column on the posts table.

 

[Gloria The Glorious]

Just use the Discord display but with the current limitations of one reaction per user.

 

[GunCar Gary]

copying discord's display system where you have a list of badges underneath the post with the post count, and then you can bring a dialog that shows who did each reaction sounds like it would work nicely

being able to add multiple reactions to a single post might also be kind of neat

however, allowing any unicode to be a reaction is a recipe for more sticker drama, not less. people will try to spell out words with the unicode letters. people will come up with nicknames for people in emoji and spam their posts with them. every post that has to do with a woman will have multiple woman emojis. every post that has to do with a black person will have multiple monkey emojis. people will have thousands of images to poke at people and find their sore spot and harass them

and those are just the things i would personally do. imagine what an unscrupulous individual might do with that kind of power

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

The giant wall of Discord emojis under posts is cancer and I hate the way it looks. If it takes me more than a glance to determine exactly how a post is being received the reactions aren't doing their job. If you want more than the top 3 reactions to be shown fine, but don't expand the list of available reactions to anything close to that.

I'd also say if a post doesn't have a specific reaction don't show an indication of that, let its absence speak for itself.

For example if a well received post hasn't received a Top Hat, I don't need a Top Hat icon with a zero next to it. I like the Top 3 emoji system because it still does the job without cluttering the forum.

 

[Doc Cassidy]

Make deviant a positive rating.