Sneedforo & Reactions: The Future of Stickers

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DickMain said:
Speaking of, how does the site pick which ones to cut off and which ones to keep? Does it just go by the top 3 most-clicked for a particular post? It sometimes feels kind of random but I was curious.
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Through careful experiment (i.e. rating people MATI for no reason over several years) I've discovered that it goes by most rated. Except when it doesn't.
 
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If the star of david for Jewish Content ever gets added other religious symbols should be added too. Could have the cross for Christian Content or maybe even the swastika or a pile of shit for Hindu Content.
Just concepts, not like we need any more rating bloat.
 
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I had an idea for a concept I think would improve the quality of life tremendously. A "quick reply" button. The UI and presentation of this would be very similar to reactions but allow for people to type short messages and add "comments" to individual posts without contributing to clutter on pages. You would hit "Quick reply" and it would open a modal much like the one shown for reactions with a text area at the bottom and people's comments where their tagline currently is.
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"Members who commented on this post."

On browsers without JavaScript enabled, the quick reply button would just take them to a separate page.

This would work very well for something like KiwiFarms where you have things like featured threads and many people want to add short comments to fulfill their dopaminergic release, but the thread loses cohesion as more and more clutter appears. Comments could also have children so if people wanted to argue with one another about stupid shit they could do so without adding an additional 20 pages to the thread.
 
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Can anyone help clarify something for me? I don't want to completely resurrect the discussion from the other thread, but I am genuinely curious. It seems like three things were happening in the last reactions page discussion:
  1. People using it for the intended purpose
  2. Some people are using it as their primary navigation(?)
  3. Some people check it occasionally to be reminded of threads we're not actively watching*
* I often see people react to a post in a thread I don't actively watch, and it inspires me to go out and hunt new content for that thread.
  • Is that right, and Null was mad about the last two, or just #2?
  • If it's both, what could be a good alternative to the third?
nb4 "Watch the thread", because sometimes lurkers don't post, so the thread doesn't actually get bumped and therefore you don't see it turn green in the normal navigation. (The way it is today where it says "So and so reacted" but doesn't show the reaction seems to work just fine for this, fwiw.)
 
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NoReturn said:
Is that right, and Null was mad about the last two, or just #2?
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Just #2. Josh doesn’t understand why people would use reactions as their primary navigation. He said in the thread multiple times that watched threads fuction in Xenforo works completely fine for him
 
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It does. I kind of understand the point that it's annoying how you don't get notifications until you view the thread, then you start getting new notifications immediately, but that volume of notifications is immensely less than reactions and more informative. I still see threads getting attention through the watched thread box. There is zero context in which a rating alert is more informative than just watching the thread.
 
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Relinquish said:
Just #2. Josh doesn’t understand why people would use reactions as their primary navigation. He said in the thread multiple times that watched threads fuction in Xenforo works completely fine for him
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Null said:
It does. I kind of understand the point that it's annoying how you don't get notifications until you view the thread, then you start getting new notifications immediately, but that volume of notifications is immensely less than reactions and more informative. I still see threads getting attention through the watched thread box. There is zero context in which a rating alert is more informative than just watching the thread.
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Gotcha. Thank you both.
 
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Watched threads only break for me when someone I have ignored replies to them, that makes them disappear from the list. But then it reappears when someone else replies to it so it's not a big deal imo. Idk if that's what people are talking about, Null probably doesn't have this issue cause as admin he can't just put people on ignore. Except that one guy that one time.
 
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With how many reactions your site deals with, is it worth the effort or data to track the time each user gave each individual reaction?
 
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Mankirk said:
With how many reactions your site deals with, is it worth the effort or data to track the time each user gave each individual reaction?
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Josh will say "no" in a vacuum with his own thoughts, but if he bothered to run a poll he would find users that say "yes" with a boner
 
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NoReturn said:
It seems like three things were happening in the last reactions page discussion:
  1. People using it for the intended purpose
  2. Some people are using it as their primary navigation(?)
  3. Some people check it occasionally to be reminded of threads we're not actively watching
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NoReturn said:
what could be a good alternative to the third?
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Maybe a new (toggleable?) sidebar box on the front page for "threads you haven't Watched but that you've posted in before + have recently received an uptick in user activity", like a "Remember This?" box or something?

Would this be too much of a headache to code just to appease the people who like that third use-case? Probably lmao, but it is the only use-case on that list that could still add some value to the browsing experience, at least imo.
 
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Null said:
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based off what people use the reactions received page for i'm thinking that a consolidated page similar to this would work better.
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Agreed. I turned off sticker notifications the day I regged, but sometimes I go back to posts just to see what people think of them. It's better to be able to see, at a glance, that people agree/disagree with a post than having 50 posts like "this. so much this." shitting up the board, so I can see the value in stickers. But I don't need to know the moment someone clicks the like button, much less get spammed with notifications all day every day.

Honestly, and this is going to be a very hot take, I liked that brief period in the thunderdome where the only stickers available were ones designed to reflect community consensus and would be perfectly happy if the entire forum was like that forever. Autistic and horrifying and such are fun, but they're largely used either as an ebin troll or as a joke, neither of which is terribly useful from an information standpoint. Maybe they could be reserved for areas of the forum that are less serious, like Top Secret Whatever and Q&A. Would certainly cut down on sperging.

That or just wrap all stickers into a generic positive/negative react by default and the only way you can see the actual stickers you got is by swearing a pledge that once you enable True Sticker Vision you can never complain about them again or else you lose the ability to see or use them forever. That would work too.
 
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Is this the place to suggest a reaction emote? A broom emote/sticker would be nice for when people type off-topic stuff in a thread.
 
The only thought i have from the top of my head is a sime binary system of "is this post deserved to be higlighted?" to create bulletpoints in the thread for easier navigation.
The problem that i see with with this system it will create 4chan style posting with "this, so much this" massages that will shit up threads but it might be possible to enforce people to not do it.
Not sure how this will effect threads that are meant to be show case threads akin "show your art" thread and such, since stickers worked pretty good in those threads as a way to show that you liked the post without typing it out.
 
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