🥝 Mr
This website makes me realize that I've been trained to "reward" others for posting online. I feel an uncontrollable urge to "upvote" or "like" comments but quickly realize the button isn't available.
💩 Niklas
I feel the same, but that limitation actually got me to reply to one of your comments and while typing "I really like your perspective", I noticed I could also throw in my own and a follow-up question as well. So I think I prefer replies over simple binary likes.
🌊 Zero Two
same. I also use the like/upvote button to show I seen your reply/message.
👂 Sly
I think it's a nice missing feature, it forces you to share your opinion instead of lurking and reacting with buttons.
Dan Heath
This. Perhaps mass social media is missing out on the fact that simple positive or negative nods is a bit 1984. It feels more rewarding to acknowledge something by discussion. Imagine if in real life everyone just put their thumbs up when someone told a joke?
⌨️ Joseph
I think I have posted more comments on this site in 2 days than I have posted on Reddit in two years.
😏 Yt L.
I feel that urge too. There are a lot of posts I'd like here, but what I find off is that I only rarely like or upvote other on other social media. There's a positive energy here that's infectious, I feel.
🤔 David
It's an odd feeling, isn't it? Perhaps the real reward stems from participation and free-flowing discussions that are motivated by our interest in the topic and conversations rather than attention-seeking behavior :)
🥝 Mr
I agree, but I still have that impulse to find and click a like button somewhere. Crazy to think that there was a time before the like button. It's a distant memory now...
🧉 Martin
It really is. I also have this urge, and it feels almost impolite to not respond in some way (be it with a like, upvote, etc.) to a comment simply because I have nothing to add. I'm enjoying that Subreply is different enough to challenge something that's now almost a constant across almost all other forms of social media I can think of.