Proposal: Pick your reaction emojis

Now that we’ve chosen to add reactions to posts beyond the default heart, it’d probably be best to decide which ones we’d like to see. I’ll seed the list with the defaults (plus :face_vomiting:), but feel free to request others if you’d like.

This is a ranked choice poll, so please vote for all of the reactions that you want, not just the one you want the most.

Which Reactions would you like available for posts?
  • :+1:
  • :laughing:
  • :open_mouth:
  • :clap:
  • :confetti_ball:
  • :hugs:
  • :face_vomiting:
  • :sob:

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Change of plans. Suggest options below. I’ll add them and then re-open the poll for voting so that everyone’s votes don’t get reset again.

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There are some posts where :sob: fits, if that won’t add too many to the box/bar/whatever.

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Added. We’ll have to see what the practical limit is, but I can’t imagine more than 10 being useful.

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Ugh. That’s not great. First I wasn’t able to edit the poll after 5 minutes because that’s the default, then after fixing that, editing the poll reset all the votes. At least I found that out quickly. Let me take a different approach.

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I have found🤔 surprisingly useful

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My picks are:

Vomit :face_vomiting:
Thumbs Up :+1:t5:
Rage :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:
Laughing :rofl:
Crying :sob:
Hugs :hugs:
Hurray :tada:

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I think hugging is very useful but feels like it is usually much more :people_hugging: than the happy :hugs:.
I know I would have used :face_exhaling: a lot but that could just be me.

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Agree with all of these.
I used these a fair bit also:

Thinking :thinking:
Shocked :open_mouth:
Facepalm :person_facepalming:

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Oh yeah, :person_facepalming: is essential

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:person_facepalming: for sure.
:rage:
:face_vomiting:
:rofl:
:smiley:
Agree with @chenille, this one is probably more applicable around here right now
:people_hugging:

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I think Bb’s bbs had a shrugging one too.

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These were the 12 options, FYI

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Yes, shrugging, but make it the lady shrugging!

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I think choosing femme emojis for the ones with people-shape and brown hands for all the hand emojis would be good. To the extent that is possible.

I find the :+1:t5: is basically equivalent to :heart: or :clap:t5: for me.

:woman_facepalming: or :woman_facepalming:t5:

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YES! Please. YES.

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Yes, :+1::heart::clap: are (mostly) interchangeable.

My vote: Replace one of those (probably :clap:) with :face_vomiting:, replace :hugs: with :people_hugging:, and make the color/gender changes you suggested above. I also like the confetti cone over the jellyfish - it just scans better.

:heart:
:+1:t5:
:people_hugging:
:laughing:
:thinking:
:hushed:
:sob:
:face_with_symbols_over_mouth:
:face_vomiting:
:woman_facepalming:t5:
:person_shrugging:t5:
:tada:

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I see what you mean, but I thought it was the asexual “person shrugging,” which I was okay with.

:person_shrugging: person

:woman_shrugging: woman

:man_shrugging: man

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I don’t know… it didn’t feel particular enby to me… YMMV!

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Yes, :+1::heart::clap: are (mostly) interchangeable.

I agree that the first two are similar enough to include just one of them, but clapping seems different to me. In many cases, it’s a stronger, and sometimes different affirmation.

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Unfortunately, in our society, a representation of a person, without an explicit label they are non-binary or asexual, is coded as male. I applaud your ability to perceive a picture that isn’t explicitly coded femme/masc as gender neutral. But most people aren’t like that. They see the :person_shrugging:t5: as a man.

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