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Re: Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments

#22

Post by danvayn »

dpflan wrote: post #9

I like the idea of adding more expressiveness, pictorially capturing sometimes fleeting moments of emotion or accurately representing an emotional state that can occur. These are the following reactions: 1. +1 2. -1 3. smile 4. thinking_face 5. heart 6. tada Do they capture the necessary expressiveness for the context? Facebook's reactions cover more emotions, but FB is trying to support reaction to anything that can…

Eh...what's the point?

Re: Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments

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Post by z1mm32m4n »

dpflan wrote: post #9

I like the idea of adding more expressiveness, pictorially capturing sometimes fleeting moments of emotion or accurately representing an emotional state that can occur. These are the following reactions: 1. +1 2. -1 3. smile 4. thinking_face 5. heart 6. tada Do they capture the necessary expressiveness for the context? Facebook's reactions cover more emotions, but FB is trying to support reaction to anything that can…

I was a little surprised that neither :ship: nor :shipit: made the list; it seems like these frequently show up in discussions as well.

Re: Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments

#24

Post by Nadya »

city41 wrote: post #17

I think people will still write +1 comments because they won't notice this new feature, at least initially. It'd be nice if Github just converted "+1" comments into reactions.

If I reply with :+1: am I responding to the comment above me (in context) or to the original Issue?

(Not that I do :+1: comments, but the above is a scenario where automatically converting wouldn't work.)

Re: Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments

#27

Post by trollingineer »

maaarghk wrote: post #5
maaarghk wrote: post #2

Quoted post unavailable.

Looks like hacker news filters out emojis. My thumbs up pun has been ruined. In all seriousness - thank god. Hopefully it won't take Google Code issue tracker like levels of effort to get people to "please star the issue if it is important to you rather than commenting with +1".

Poor you.

Re: Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments

#28

Post by dpflan »

danvayn wrote: post #22
dpflan wrote: post #9

I like the idea of adding more expressiveness, pictorially capturing sometimes fleeting moments of emotion or accurately representing an emotional state that can occur. These are the following reactions: 1. +1 2. -1 3. smile 4. thinking_face 5. heart 6. tada Do they capture the necessary expressiveness for the context? Facebook's reactions cover more emotions, but FB is trying to support reaction to anything that can…

Eh...what's the point?

I think the point is: Will this be a meaningful form of communication and is the language (subset of images) sufficient? Can small changes like this perhaps change how PRs, Comments, etc are treated? Will it be productive, a distraction, or a NOOP? Would you use this feature or have you used a feature like this?

Re: Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments

#29

Post by dpflan »

minimaxir wrote: post #19
dpflan wrote: post #9

I like the idea of adding more expressiveness, pictorially capturing sometimes fleeting moments of emotion or accurately representing an emotional state that can occur. These are the following reactions: 1. +1 2. -1 3. smile 4. thinking_face 5. heart 6. tada Do they capture the necessary expressiveness for the context? Facebook's reactions cover more emotions, but FB is trying to support reaction to anything that can…

I recently wrote a post about Facebook Reactions and if it would be effective at helping quantify sentiment. ( http://minimaxir.com/2016/02/facebook-reactions/ ) The tl;dr is that I believe that Reactions are redundant outside of positive/negative classification. GitHub actually has both +1 and -1, which satisfies me. But there's not much productive purpose with a smile/heart/tada other than to be quirky. (The thinki…

Yeah, as I asked below: Will this be a meaningful form of communication and is the language (subset of images) sufficient? Can small changes like this perhaps change how PRs, Comments, etc are treated? Will it be productive, a distraction, or a NOOP?
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