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🥝 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.
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💩 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.
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🥝 Mr I agree, it definitely encourages more thoughtful responses. FB and other platforms 100% encourage likes. Even apple devices turn single button presses into confetti expositions and firework animations.
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🗨️ Fui ^ upvoted.
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❄️ Geoff Definitely a feature that it's missing
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🥝 Mr I like it, but I'm still adjusting! I can't tell if modern web apps have changed my nature though, or if it's "natural" to look for an additional level of interaction that isn't just words on a page.
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🌊 Zero Two same. I also use the like/upvote button to show I seen your reply/message.
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👂 Sly I think it's a nice missing feature, it forces you to share your opinion instead of lurking and reacting with buttons.
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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?
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⌨️ Joseph I think I have posted more comments on this site in 2 days than I have posted on Reddit in two years.
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☀️ Zadjii Not including this functionality is honestly a really neat stand-out feature of this site IMO. Even HackerNews has up/down votes for posts. I'm curious how this will affect the dynamic of this site - hopefully garbage comments like "+1" won't become the norm.
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😏 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.
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🥝 Mr Good point, I don't engage much on other platforms even though I frequent them. Maybe it's because the content here appears genuine where 50% or more of content anywhere else feels like an advertisement of some kind (even if it's an individual trying to show off)
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🤔 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 :)
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🥝 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...
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🧉 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.
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