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Re: Facebook Reactions

#51

Post by SquirrelOnFire »

dang wrote: post #46
Shish2k wrote: post #8

For disagreement, write a comment explaining /why/ you disagree. (It's similar to HN's policy* of "prefer discussion to downvotes") * EDIT: I mean culture; as in I've seen it mentioned a lot by users of the site, though it's not in the rules

> It's similar to HN's policy of "prefer discussion to downvotes" HN has never had any such policy. Edit: We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10356268 and marked it off-topic.

Policy? Maybe not, but the apparent lack of downvote buttons seem to indicate that the ethos of "discussion over downvotes" is on the mark.

Re: Facebook Reactions

#52

Post by biot »

SquirrelOnFire wrote: post #51
dang wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's similar to HN's policy of "prefer discussion to downvotes" HN has never had any such policy. Edit: We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10356268 and marked it off-topic.

Policy? Maybe not, but the apparent lack of downvote buttons seem to indicate that the ethos of "discussion over downvotes" is on the mark.

Try reading the FAQ:

  Why don't I see down arrows?

  There are no down arrows on stories. They appear on comments
  after users reach a certain karma threshold, but never on
  direct replies.
Since your account was created 5 minutes ago, you lack the karma to downvote.

Re: Facebook Reactions

#54

Post by giaour »

SquirrelOnFire wrote: post #51
dang wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's similar to HN's policy of "prefer discussion to downvotes" HN has never had any such policy. Edit: We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10356268 and marked it off-topic.

Policy? Maybe not, but the apparent lack of downvote buttons seem to indicate that the ethos of "discussion over downvotes" is on the mark.

Downvote buttons become visible when you have sufficient karma to vote something down.

Re: Facebook Reactions

#55

Post by jonknee »

SquirrelOnFire wrote: post #51
dang wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's similar to HN's policy of "prefer discussion to downvotes" HN has never had any such policy. Edit: We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10356268 and marked it off-topic.

Policy? Maybe not, but the apparent lack of downvote buttons seem to indicate that the ethos of "discussion over downvotes" is on the mark.

There is a downvote button after you have gotten some karma.

See: http://i.imgur.com/dqItM9R.png

Re: Facebook Reactions

#56

Post by codyb »

SquirrelOnFire wrote: post #51
dang wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's similar to HN's policy of "prefer discussion to downvotes" HN has never had any such policy. Edit: We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10356268 and marked it off-topic.

Policy? Maybe not, but the apparent lack of downvote buttons seem to indicate that the ethos of "discussion over downvotes" is on the mark.

Downvoting is enabled once you hit 500 karma, a policy presumably meant to ensure that those most likely to contribute to a quality discussion are also the most likely to have good judgement in downvoting less quality discussion.

Re: Facebook Reactions

#57

Post by orbifold »

arasmussen wrote: post #36
orbifold wrote: post #32

I wonder if one of the new options simply gets adopted as "dislike" by convention, maybe Yay would be a good candidate.

Why would Yay get adopted as "dislike"? Something like angry or sad would make way more sense. It'd be incredibly hard to create this culture in 1.4B people when the UI indicates otherwise. Perhaps among younger audiences? I'm still very skeptical.

I associate and would use Yay only as an ironic expressions of excitement, as in "Two more weeks of working overtime, yay", but I have only found a discussion in an catholic forum as evidence that some people think the same way.

I don't believe I have ever heard someone use "Yay" in a non ironic fashion, but I'm not from an english speaking country.

So you could easily imagine a situation where posts by popular kids would get likes but posts by outsiders only yays.

Re: Facebook Reactions

#58

Post by Jonanin »

Canada wrote: post #16

Wow I'm so excited that I can now express myself with a range of Facebook approved emotions!

Dismayed that middlebrow dismissals like this still reign supreme on HN, this seems like a cheap shot comment. Obviously you can express yourself however you wish on Facebook through comments, pictures, etc; they've actually broadened your options for doing so here.

Re: Facebook Reactions

#59

Post by gkoberger »

Why all the negativity here? You can still like things, comment with text, or just not use Facebook. Nobody will ever be forced to use these emoticons, and nobody at Facebook is saying you can only express these 6 emotions while using Facebook.

I also don't get why everyone feels FB owes them a dislike button. It seems like that would be a bad feature.

Personally, I think it's a good change. It won't change Facebook much, but it certainly won't do harm.

Re: Facebook Reactions

#60

Post by [deleted] »

gkoberger wrote: post #59

Why all the negativity here? You can still like things, comment with text, or just not use Facebook. Nobody will ever be forced to use these emoticons, and nobody at Facebook is saying you can only express these 6 emotions while using Facebook. I also don't get why everyone feels FB owes them a dislike button. It seems like that would be a bad feature. Personally, I think it's a good change. It won't change Facebook…

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