Sneedforo & Reactions: The Future of Stickers

[BULLY HUNTER_78]

This idea seems fine. Just let me keep my precious Islamic Content sticker. It is, without a doubt, the most fun to give because it simultaneously makes fun of the degeneracy in a post and the religion that worships a dead pedophile at the same time.

 

[Sugriva]

I think that there should be a button to kill people whose posts I do not like. Thank you.

 

[Clorox Cowboy]

I vaguely remember the "weeaboo" one with the sticker x10 display style and I think I prefer it since it looks way less cluttered than the Discord style of displaying all. I agree being able to see all reactions at once is helpful and I don't think that seeing the name of who gave you the sticker is particularly helpful in its current list state, but maybe a blending of the two with "informative x10" but then when you click on it it displays all 10 names.
An entire unicode library sound nice on paper, but I think it could get cluttered fast. I'm in favor of more granularity in ratings though. Reactions which convey you're baiting, a tourist with no information on the topic, out in the field researching, and creative original meme/art comes to mind. So expanding but still a limited library is my vote.

Also still agree with removing score since I think it encourages people to gameify posting and not take risks when posting which makes boring forums instead of leading to interesting discussion.

 

[zyclonPD]

I got a new idea, implement a site wide 3/5ths compromise, every react only counts as 3/5ths of a reaction requiring multiple people to react to form one like.

 

[Sir Baz the Intolerant]

Discuss.

I actually prefer Discord's style of showing each reaction type as it conveys the most information at a glance, however I would not implement custom reactions.

At the end of the day the reactions are meant to convey feedback to the poster and to readers, and while the precise meanings of each sticker has changed over the years, this has been a natural process and everyone here still knows what they mean. If we let anyone make their own then we'll end up in a situation where there will be so many retarded little in-jokes being used as reactions, that maybe only a dozen users will get, that it'll be impossible for most of us to understand what half the reactions we got even mean.

Also, having a million different reacts under a post is just ugly and inevitably leads to the fucking awful jpeg vomit that you see under posts in larger Discord servers, it also completely undermines the benefit of that system, which is the readability. Granted it won't be nearly as offensive with the one-reaction limit, but it would still harm readability all the same.

 

[IKOL]

I was a Dota2 fiend.

EW, GROSS.

edit: to be fair the current reaction system is fine. what's not fine is that you've stripped us all off the chance to know if someone have reacted to the postme pr some other kiwi might've made in some obscure, forgotten thread.

Pissbear be upon your head for this, Jersh.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

Has islamic content sticker, but no solomon star..

 

[Slav Power]

1. Keep the XenForo/Facebook style, but have categories. Instead of displaying every react possible on one bar, have something similar to Facebook's that acts as the first-level category. You can click 'like' to like, open the fly-out and click a broad reaction, or further fly-out each category and get a very specific / memetic one, like Semper Fi.

2. Copy Discord. Just flat out copy Discord, make every Unicode character a possible reaction, and then allow custom reacts exactly like they do which show up above the generics. You would still be limited to 1 reaction, instead of Discord's kitchen sink.

I'd say mix of both.

For reaction display under post, copy Discord. All reactions and their counts shown at once, and clicking on one of the reactions will bring up the list of people who reacted with it, so no "click to also react the same way" behavior from Discord.

Don't copy the Unicode approach. There are over 3000 emojis, so if you don't set a limit it'll become a clusterfuck. Discord has a limit, and it means that after spamming X different emoji reactions, you can't add any more, so it would limit post interactions. Stay with the current custom reaction system to keep it in reign, and add only what's really needed or used.

The current "Like" button doesn't make much sense since there are so many other reactions. It's like that on Facebook because it's Facebook. Don't copy Facebook. Perhaps instead of a "Like" button add a "React" button. Here you can also copy Discord and make it so the icon by the "React" button changes to a random reaction icon on hover. Default it to the "Like" reaction and then do the funky roll on hover, just to tell the user that you can do more than just like a post.

As for the reaction chooser, rip off the usual emoji selector into a reaction category chooser. It's easy, manageable and scales well in case of adding more reactions if that was to ever happen.

So really, keep the current reaction system, but redo it's implementation into the frontend, how they get displayed under the post and how they can be given to a post. Everything else about it is fine.

 

[bile demon]

All I want is a Pat sticker. Don't care what system it's implemented under.

 

[Angry Shoes]

I agree

 

[IKOL]

All I want is a Pat sticker. View attachment 5972431 Don't care what system it's implemented under.

I vote for addition of Tommy Wisau and William Shatner as reaction emotes as well.

WhatATekSexWarStoryMark.

 

[Safir]

One thing I might do, depending on system style and specific implementation, and bring back the Weeaboo's Post Ratings table, as below.

This will cause a new iteration of gayop reaction spam.

I think the best way is the old style but formatted like Discord, with tiny frames (the x is too noisy). The icons should be ordered from most-reacted to least-reacted and then from best to worst, "Disagree 3 | Like 2 | Feels 1 | Dumb 1".

Usernames front and center are unnecessary, it's hard to imagine a situation when a specific user-user reaction is actually important but the other user wouldn't/shouldn't post a reply with additional content.

The current set of ratings is expressive and comprehensive; the best thing is they're (almost) all visually different. Not "sad face" "frowning face" "smiling face" "crying face", Facebook's set is godawful.
Any reaction reform should have a provision for how to migrate the reactions already set. Unicode does NOT have "Chris's unclit piercing".

Now for setting a reaction, these are the ones we currently have by broad characterization and use
(NOT by point rating -- I know Lunacy is supposed to be bad but I've never seen it used on a post BY a skitzo):

Positive​	Negative​	Neutral​
like	dislike	disagree
agree	deviant	thunkful
winner	islamic	autistic
semper fi	politisperging	horrifying
informative	tmi	optimistic
feels	late	lunacy
drink	dumb
	mati

Cutting Like, Dislike, and Islamic (Like -> Agree, Dislike -> Disagree, Islamic -> Deviant or leave it as a legacy reaction) leaves 3 neat groups of 6 reactions each.
Maybe have a fourth button for board-specific reactions.
Hide each group behind a collapsible (onhover on PC, onclick on mobile) menu.
Categorization would reinforce that Disagree is neutral and it's actually ok to *~*~agree to disagree~*~*.
If you want to put some reactions behind a paywall, do it for Semper Fi, Deviant, and Autistic.

I just think it's missing a laugh/funny sticker. When it's not obviously a joke, just liking isn't enough to convey this feeling.

Use Winner or Drink. "Funny" is not specific enough in cow threads, ideally every post in a cow thread should be funny, most of us read about cows for mildly perverse entertainment, not to meditate on the human condition.

 

[GamerGateSurvivor]

Personally I like ratings because they give me feedback on my jokes. But going forward, I think it'd be best if we kept things simple and not use every rating under the sun.

 

[PunkinMan]

Add a clown reaction sticker, clowns are my favourite. Could be used as a reaction calling something funny or you are dumb, the dumb reaction and puzzle piece dont work both ways.

 

[AngryAboutInternets]

Frankly the scores are retarded and anyone who disagrees is retarded, so the table would be a decent change so long as it's only visible to yourself. Anything that lets people dickmeasure social acceptance scores will inevitably lead to lower-quality discussion. The redditnigger mindset should be purged.

Also, when it comes to which individual stickers are available, I think it's important to note that from a utilitarian point of view what a "sticker" is is really just a substitute for a short, low-effort post. To that end, it might be valuable to see what kind of other common short reply forms exist around here that aren't already covered by the existing stickers and add some for them, or split existing ones to be slightly more specific. "Feels" for example is one that I think should probably be two or three stickers: A sticker that indicates sympathy/empathy with a user's post and a pair of stickers that indicate a positive/negative emotional (specifically emotional, not just dislike) reaction to the content of the post. These aren't really the same thing, but "Feels" is used for all three at the moment and sometimes it can be hard to tell what someone means by it.

"Dumb" should probably also be two or three stickers, like "talking shit", "low-IQ", and "wow that's dumb" (referring to the topic being discussed, not the poster). I'm not good at naming things but I think that, at least, what I'm saying is comprehensible.

Oh, and "Like" and "Agree" should probably be the same, as should "Dislike" and some other sticker with negative connotations. Maybe that's just my anti-reddit autism.

 

[ICanLurkNoMore]

All I want is a Pat sticker. View attachment 5972431 Don't care what system it's implemented under.

isolate and simplify it and it'd work as a T&H think react tbf

 

[Cuban Pete]

anyone being able to see any cumulative score will lead to dopamine addicted people farming for reactions to make a number go up which is painful to deal with when reading through a thread so please hide those things

 

[Sperg_rancher]

So, 6 pages of forum posts may prove otherwise, but I'm not sure that reaction systems are worth this much thought... at a certain point, we're just spinning our wheels.
Just make it backwards compatible, and that's about it.

 

[Exister]

I think having all the unicode emojis available would kill some of the character of the forum. The fly out idea sounds better, some of the reactions are hard to understand without context, like the

 

[Vlinny-kun]

I really don't mind the current sticker system. Keeping a limited yet versatile set of stickers makes reactions quickly understood by even new users and useful site-wide. The current way it displays only the 3 most used reactions is perfectly fine with quickly understanding what other users think of a post, and you can see other reactions and who gave them if you wanted by just clicking on them. I like giving reactions as it's a great way to share your thoughts on something without shitting up a thread with benign 2 word comments or saying something 100 people have already said, so having 50 different stickers to choose from will only make things confusing and encourage even more autism about getting the bad stickers that make retards feefees hurt.

Option 1 is the way to go if it really needs to be changed, but I'd say don't try to fix what isn't broken.