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Any thoughts on adding emoji (or custom) reactions to posts? Might be a fun free alternative to Reddit’s award system. Might just add clutter.
Edit: nvm, found an open issue where you said you'd like to add it but there are lots of other things to do first: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2541
Just as with reddit's awards it would just be clutter
Maybe i would approve of just one special award award that you can grant once per day to a post or comment. But not tens of different icons atop of every post that would be awful.
Sounds good at first, but sooner or later it would result in users using alts to highlight their own comments. Even if it was granted only once a month or less.
Sure, bumping your comments is already possible with alts, but it's not so effective and distracting like an award would be.
With Reddit Gold, you at least had to decide if you really wanted to spend your real money on it.
I like the concept of users saying "hey that comment helped/entertainment me a lot and really deserves a special spotlight", but it shouldn't be too easy to abuse.
Maybe Lemmy ~~Gold~~ Spotlight should be available to give away once you've made a donation. Maybe there would be other problems with that.
I think it should be generated by participation that is upvoted. If you contribute enough quality stuff, you get one gold to give out. And yeah it should just be gold, and multiple golds would have just one icon, with a number;
Not entirely true, as Reddit used to have a daily free award, which was actually quite fun to grant to a helpful or funny comment.
Also these awards shouldn't affect the comment's order in sorting in any way, just like (I think) it didn't do that on Reddit either. Sure you could make your comment look like it was liked a lot by someone by using an alt, but in the end it's still only upvotes that really matter.
Could it be limited to only show the top 3 emoji reactions on the UI (like on LinkedIn), or simply show the number of reactions, and require an extra click to view them all?
I feel like that's still unnecessary clutter. Are upvotes not sufficient?
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We did it at hexbear, the changes might make it upstream some day!
This is more about reactions like mastodon has, IE they'd live alongside upvotes, but not affect the sorting.
I generally like awards, but on Reddit I've completely ignored them on posts. It was just too many of them.
I liked the awards for comments though, as they helped pick out comments from the bottomless pit. Not really a problem on Lemmy yet...
Here's some lemmy gold for your contribution
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Edit: I see its silver on Macs, so... lemmy coin?