There’s been lots of chat about this already, but sometimes it helps to give a concrete example.
Here I mentioned a potential problem in Italy in the Italian category. I was reporting a potential problem there (potentially bad news). The reactions were one “thumbs up” and one “angry”.
It’s reasonable to assume that the “thumbs up” is a reaction to my post, not the underlying problem, but what about the “angry”? Was that with me or with the problem that I reported?
Most of the others are similarly problematic. We have:
- +1
- “heart”
- “laughing”
- “open mouth”
- “cry”
- “angry”
- “hugs”
- “frowning_face”
- “star_struck”
Of those, “+1” makes sense and “frowning_face” is probably the nearest that we have to a “-1” (even though it has no meaning in the site metrics). “laughing” is sometimes useful for “I get the joke”. Some people use “heart” instead of “+1”; the rest, no so much.
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