Hi! I think we might have a bug — I’m not sure where you’re seeing those emojis on the Forum. For me, here are the emojis that show up:
@Agnes Stenlund might be able to say more about how we chose those,[1] but I do think we went for this set as a way to create a low-friction way of sharing non-anonymous positive feedback (which authors and commenters have told us they lack, and some have told us that they feel awkward just commenting with something non-substantive but positive like “thanks!”) while also keeping the UX understandable and easy to use. I think it’s quite possible that it would be better to also add some negative/critical emojis, but I’m not very convinced right now and not convinced that it’s super promising relative to the others stuff we’re working on, & something we should dive deeper into. It won’t be my call in the end, regardless, but I’m definitely up for hearing arguments about why this is wrong!
Not a bug—it’s from Where are you donating this year, and why? which is grandfathered into an old experimental voting system (and it’s the only post with this voting system—there are a couple of others with different experimental systems).
I’m so sorry- I should have been more surprised when I went to get a screenshot and it wasn’t the palette I expected. I have comments set to notify me only once per day, so I didn’t get alerted to the issue until now.
I wrote this with the standard palette so I still think there is a problem, but I feel terrible for exaggerating it with a palette that was perfectly appropriate for its thread.
Hi! I think we might have a bug — I’m not sure where you’re seeing those emojis on the Forum. For me, here are the emojis that show up:
@Agnes Stenlund might be able to say more about how we chose those,[1] but I do think we went for this set as a way to create a low-friction way of sharing non-anonymous positive feedback (which authors and commenters have told us they lack, and some have told us that they feel awkward just commenting with something non-substantive but positive like “thanks!”) while also keeping the UX understandable and easy to use. I think it’s quite possible that it would be better to also add some negative/critical emojis, but I’m not very convinced right now and not convinced that it’s super promising relative to the others stuff we’re working on, & something we should dive deeper into. It won’t be my call in the end, regardless, but I’m definitely up for hearing arguments about why this is wrong!
I don’t view this as a finalized set — I think there’s a >50% chance (75%?) that we’ve changed at least something about it in the next ~6 months.
Not a bug—it’s from Where are you donating this year, and why? which is grandfathered into an old experimental voting system (and it’s the only post with this voting system—there are a couple of others with different experimental systems).
I’m so sorry- I should have been more surprised when I went to get a screenshot and it wasn’t the palette I expected. I have comments set to notify me only once per day, so I didn’t get alerted to the issue until now.
I wrote this with the standard palette so I still think there is a problem, but I feel terrible for exaggerating it with a palette that was perfectly appropriate for its thread.
Semi-tangential question: what’s the rationale for making the reactions public but the voting (including the agree/disagree voting) anonymous?