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Perhaps it would be better to ask, how do you expect people to communicate to you those things that would be expressed as reactions?
Using words. Same as here on Hacker News.
That is, there is no ack signal.
Can an anti-reaction person explain what they find so distasteful about them? Is it that the other person wasn't willing to make the effort to type is seen as disrespectful? struggling to see what the problem is
It isn't materially different than replying "OK" in that both a thumb's-up notification and an "OK" reply both act as distractions from whatever meaningful activity I'm engaging in, the same with all the DINGS and BUZZES and BANNERS and POP UPS that vie for my precious attention. I've struggled my entire life trying to control my focus, and it's like the rest of humanity has decided to go all in on filling our shared…
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It should be entirely socially acceptable to respond to any trivial message with "ACKNOWLEDGED" á la Picard
I agree. Also, if the message proposes any action, it should be appropriate to reply with "Make it so.".
These are shorter. And remind me of the voice chat program Roger Wilco too.
Can an anti-reaction person explain what they find so distasteful about them? Is it that the other person wasn't willing to make the effort to type is seen as disrespectful? struggling to see what the problem is
Second, "reactions" are not part of the email culture or the standard email specs. It's unexpected and awkward.
So it's not being "anti-reaction" in general, it's being against some feature that only works in MS email apps, which then pops up in broken form elsewhere.
It looks like this feature was removed eventually, but it's just one of those tasteless things that MS does every once in a while.
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This is cute, but not how email communication works. There's no need for explicit answer to any email, otherwise people would never stop responding.
“Please let me know if you were able to read this attachment.” Really?
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No. When you block an email the sender will get a notification email from their mail server that their message was blocked. They will not assume anything for very long.
> When you block an email the sender will get a notification email from their mail server that their message was blocked And if that blocked message was a reaction I’d assume I can move on: they sent an email, I sent a response, they refused to accept it and then spammed me to boot.
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No. When you block an email the sender will get a notification email from their mail server that their message was blocked. They will not assume anything for very long.
That's email server dependent. When my mailserver blocks emails, it just drops them onto the floor. The sender doesn't get any sort of notification.
Every day a new form of cancer.
It's truly exhausting how often I read a tech article and think, "Just when you think software couldn't get worse..."
:)
(gah, maybe it's dangerous to even joke about this)
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It isn't materially different than replying "OK" in that both a thumb's-up notification and an "OK" reply both act as distractions from whatever meaningful activity I'm engaging in, the same with all the DINGS and BUZZES and BANNERS and POP UPS that vie for my precious attention. I've struggled my entire life trying to control my focus, and it's like the rest of humanity has decided to go all in on filling our shared…
This is actually something I like about Slack’s implementation: reactions don’t generate notifications.