Does anyone else think having emojis as a response to a comment/thread would be a neat addition instead of only upvote/downvote?

Reddit seemed to sorta do that with awards but thats not quite what I’m suggesting.

Something similar to GitHub for instance, except we keep the upvote downvote system as-is.

This would hopefully discourage the use of upvote/downvote as a “I like/dislike this” button while also adding the ability to more accurately express the emotion the post/comment illicited

Additionally, there are a lot of people who are mostly just lurkers and have no desire to post, but they want to be able to emote further then just a upvote/downvote but DON’T want to actually post a comment like “I love this” or “You’re so right” or even just commenting an emoji, because making a comment is a whole extra action that makes them visible, opens up to comments or upvotes/downvotes.

  • Pratai
    12·
    9 months ago

    You don’t accept my answer. If you did, you wouldn’t be arguing with me about it. You asked an opinion-based question, I gave you mine. You delved, I obliged. And now you have a problem with it.

    Grow up.

    It’s reasons like this that emojis shouldn’t be allowed on lemmy. Leave that shit on twitter.

      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksOP
        11·
        9 months ago

        Thanks, it’s definitely fair to state an opinion, I simply disagree with their opinion (which they’re definitely asserting as fact) and explained why I asked the additional question.

      • Pratai
        11·
        9 months ago

        that’s an opinion

        Exactly. Which is what I stated. Question asked- question answered. OP just didn’t like my answer after asking why.

        I wasn’t aware it was: “answer only if you agree.” Had this been stated, I’d have ignored the question and moved on.