That’s a good recommendation. Yes, slow down, think, write. And allow everyone else who doesn’t want to do that to express themselves using reactions.
Would such a reaction have added anything meaningful to the discussion?
My main concern about reactions is that it transforms a discussion between people into a public show off. Likes of course also promote that effect to a certain degree, but empirically much less than emoji reactions.
Framing emoji reactions as “expressivity” is disingenuous, especially when the “reply” button is right there and does offer maximum expressivity (minus the footnotes, I still want that plugin, but that’s a different topic).
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As a side note;
We don’t have an explicit person or team responsible for making the Discourse forum cozy. So while it’s good to have an argument, it’s not going to lead to a decision right now.
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I personally vote for:
In truth, I think is the only one that can’t be expressed by simply liking a post, but adding reactions simply to only add one negative one feels a little silly. I definitely think 
shouldn’t be added.
Yes, my emotions about it are meaningful.
Only allowing reactions that boost your ego seems disingenuous to me. I don’t see why you want to ban everything that does not go your way of thinking in this forum. 
should still be considered acceptable.
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For me, it’s not so much a question of banning a way of thinking as it is discouraging responses that degrade the quality of the conversation.
Responding with a clown emoji is more than an act of self-expression. It fairly predictably provokes more closed-minded, defensive responses from other people than more considered alternatives. Such things feed on each other and then it becomes hard to have a mature conversation, and topics get locked.
Social media is for expressing yourself in as filtered or as unfiltered a way as you like. This Discourse should optimize for quality of discourse over capacity for self-expression (when the two are in conflict).
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Of course your emotions are meaningful to you, but again, is a display of them in that matter a meaningful addition to the discussion? My question was and is rhetorical; this was a discussion between people in which you were neither involved nor directly affected, so my answer to it is no.
To me, it feels like you are more interested in performative self-display than actually furthering a discussion.
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We have these on github already and I don’t think they add anything to the conversion, instead it is like an emoji brigade. Go look at some of the RFC or SC posts on gitub. I’d opt to not have these. Use your words.
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I’d prefer just disabling those altogether, FWIW. They’re less meaningful than an actual reply, and encourage lazy single-click forms of communication. I feel like the 
reactions are similar, although they are useful at times.
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I’m going to close this thread. If upstream discourse adds such a feature, it will appear here on the relevant upgrade. Until then, this discussion is moot and becoming agitated.
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