Hmmm. It's for "does not appear to seek input and discussion", though there is the discussion tag (and announcement). Need a new mandatory for just an announcement (if that's the protester's claim).
@JourneymanGeek Somewhere (the -2K Announcement?) there's a comment from a Mod/CM "quit trying to close this ...". --- Closing / Deleting a Company Announcement is R/A: "... abuse of the community or system ...".
They (we) don't have to like it, but people need to be able to access the information (without wondering if closed means it no longer applies - if they are new and don't know better). --- But I accept your decision, I've reported this, case closed.
Today has been very quiet, tomorrow too most likely; then the Boxing Day liner-uppers ... So it won't be busy for a few more days, then things will start to take off again. --- Also, I think that the regurgitator was stuck, because I was getting no votes all day and then received a pile all within a short period of time.
Could be any of a half dozen people really, some people know they share their account; others perhaps not. Even we get the "Evil Twin" story sometimes, or WiFi hacked.
@ShadowTheBurningWizard I don't think it makes sense to try and gauge community desire for a feature by measuring the desire of a limited subset of Teams only
propose it on public meta and see
I'm pretty sure among the first posts there will be a dozen suggesting other reactions than these 4 placeholder ones
Today, upvoting is anonymous; the recipient knows they were upvoted, but they don't know who upvoted them, so it's not a public personal gesture. The only way to let someone know who likes your answer is to comment, often by saying "Thanks!" which adds nothing to the discussion.
There should be ...
For initial specing out- its internal. I've done one survey (on some mod tools) and skipped one (on teams - I skipped that cause it was at a low point for me and the community) - both before the loop.
For making a decision, maybe focus groups work. For refinement in the field, I'm still a fan of meta
I just have a feeling that showcasing this new proposal with these 4 specific mostly useless reactions is akin to setting it up for failure, deliberately or not, I feel like I have to comment on that and propose to change these for the initial discussion already
because I sense that the tone is supposed to be something nice, I'd suggest only the positive reactions for now, like "high quality post", "strongly agree", "well phrased", "important announcement"/"deserves attention"
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the two hands clapping together is also good for Anime.SE for alchemist transmutation spell casting I suppose >.>
@Rob yea I feel like this reduces their maximum potential, like in cases where you know a post is worthy of a downvote but you can't quite put it into a comment and so just downvote and go, while the poster might be left confused, but if there was a quick reaction like "badly formatted" or "probably a duplicate" that might clear things up with the poster and be useful. I don't see this as negative personally. It feels better than to be left in the blind.
basically instead of "negative reactions" think (and actually provide) "valid criticism" but without specifics
for specifics, you can write up a comment, but for when you don't want to / don't know how/ etc, you can use a quick one-click reaction
not the letters "RTFM" but something a bit less obscene
"you can easily find the answer in the documentation for this" - would be the message you want to convey
I think that if such reactions which mean specific things about how to improve content or which note how exactly the content is already good, were a thing, we would see an increase in quality
it might feel like it turns the site into a bit of a kindergarten with all the colorful "friendly" icons but it just might be the most efficient solution to the SO problems which canned comments couldn't solve and the perception of the rules being convoluted and general lack of clarity on how to improve a bad post
@Rob as funny as a poop emoji reaction may be, I don't think vague and unclear reaction pictograms are useful precisely because it's unclear what they mean or how they can be interpreted as constructive criticism (positive or negative)
as one of the core goals of the Q&A is to minimize noise, I think such reactions have no place
or should be brought to their clearest analogies
like Skeptics might enjoy a "red herring" reaction, as I see it used often in the comments, idk
some cartoon or game questions about "why did this character suddenly fly all the way to the moon" could be reacted to with "anime physics"
(because some questions just don't have a scientific explanation and it's only something done for fun by creators of the fictional world, like scoobydoo falling physics or loony tunes / ren and stimpy wacky face warping)
probably show a small time graph of vote history dynamics to see if the votes have been increasing for or against a specific reaction, like at first many people agreed a post was low quality but lately (after it was improved) found this reaction doesn't reflect the new reality :p
That allows exactness, expansion, easy implementation (using existing code), Review, blocking, everything tags offer us for "subject categorization" but applied to "fault finding" (or "lack of faults found, for 60 days) - status-complete).
announcements are one thing, they rarely change, but general posts are supposed to change, and so are the reactions to them
votes change already and we don't get to see the vote change dynamics, only the total and the breakdown of upvotes and downvotes if you have enough rep
grey to grey for an hour! that is a horrific display panel!
RTX GPU WTF BBQ :p
to summarize regarding reactions: I think they need to be specific and clear and be useful as valid criticism and be able to be voted against for when problems with the post are fixed (or in case the post gets worse through bad edits)
and there's gotta be a way to view the reaction vote history or a visual graph to gauge what the public reaction was over time, kinda like Steam Reviews have, because games also can get better or worse through time
I just raised a moderator flag and it was dismissed as declined in a short while.
It says "flags should only be used to make mods aware of content that requires their intervention."
Well, there are five different flag decline reasons on this site:
Declined comment/recommend closure flag: Decl...