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>trying to pick apart everything I say and find a way to disagree with it. We're totally not.
Ironically, you are so proving his point for him.
That's the joke.
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Re: Facebook Reactions
#102I'm genuinely trying to understand how this has any significance at all. They are implementing emoticons - all of which could be expressed in other ways on the platform (in a comment etc).
The only thing that changes is that now facebook will be able to explicitly map the emoticon expression to the posted content - something that humans could do already given the contextual clues in the use of an emoticon in a comment.
Generally, people "like" the person far more than the like the content (i.e. it's various aspects of the person, e.g. status, that are primarily causal with respect to others wanting to click that 'like' button.) My prediction is that people will be unlikely to use these extra buttons because they confuse this essential signalling game. A 'wow' emoticon, for example - can often be ambiguous as to whether or not you are aligning with the recipient, or signalling negatively toward them. Thus folks will struggle with the fear of sending the wrong signal.
If facebook persists and people do start using them - then the result will be a greater number of signalling failures, increased conflict, and greater user dissatisfaction.
Re: Facebook Reactions
#103My main gripe with this is they didn't include the two main reactions I have to Facebook posts: cringe and gulag.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ironically, you are so proving his point for him.
That's the joke.
I was aware it was potentially a joke. HN is mostly not very welcoming of jokes and that sort of joke, where the point is to irritate someone expressing their frustration, is a type that I think is mostly not nice and generally does not work well on a large forum. It can be an okay thing in a small group of trusted friends. Even in small groups, the odds are high that it amounts to just assholery and disrespect. It gets worse the larger the group.
So, I think it still merely proves the point being made above it, regardless of its supposed intent to be funny at someone's expense.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not everyone lacks downvote buttons. I have them. I don't know how you get them, but I assume it's related to account age and/or karma.
Looking at the responses to the parent, i wish there was also a "mark comment as duplicate" button. Maybe i still lack the karma!
Yeah, that's unfortunate. I clicked Reply when there were no replies, but by the time I composed my reply there were several others.
Re: Facebook Reactions
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the frustration is that around a month ago Zuckaberg himself was hitting the media to drum up speculation, "Is it time to add a dislike button". I think it's more a matter of failure to deliver on said hype as expected. Simply, for around a month we've been challenged to consider, is a dislike button something you might use? "Ok I suppose YES". Well then here's the new features. "Wait?! Where the dislike butt…
He can't control what the media writes. For example, the article was titled "Facebook working on 'dislike' button, Zuckerberg says", but here's the actual quotes from that exact article: "It's important to give people more options than just 'like'" to help express empathy and sympathy, Zuckerberg said. "Not every moment is a good moment." "Some people have asked for a dislike button because they want to say, 'That th…
I think you may have missed my point.
I was addressing your comment "I also don't get why everyone feels FB owes them a dislike button. It seems like that would be a bad feature."
I don't like the idea of a dislike button myself but was commenting that unfulfilled expectation was the thing that lead the peanut brigade to whining.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the frustration is that around a month ago Zuckaberg himself was hitting the media to drum up speculation, "Is it time to add a dislike button". I think it's more a matter of failure to deliver on said hype as expected. Simply, for around a month we've been challenged to consider, is a dislike button something you might use? "Ok I suppose YES". Well then here's the new features. "Wait?! Where the dislike butt…
Even when Zuckerberg said that, I think he had made clear that he wanted something for the situations where "liking" is not appropriate. I still think that ignoring is much better than disliking.
Agreed. TLDR Media Hype led to unfufilled expectation leading to whingers.