Emote spamming, or “chain reactions”

I typically try to confine myself to a single reaction per comment, but have sometimes noticed people using more than one. I suppose 👍 & 😄 go together reasonably well, or either of these and 🧡; but should it really be possible for one person to use both 👍 & 👎 on the same comment? Logically, you should have to pick one, like on YouTube (or Amazon, back in the day). For that matter, using 👍 on one’s own comment is just bad form. 🙄

More troublingly, I have occasionally observed people spamming every available reaction on every comment in a given thread. Usually this only continues for a page or two, because the spammer is too lazy to check back the next day and keep it going. (On that note: perhaps a “reaction timeout” for users who click a lot of these in quick succession would be a good preventive measure.) But as this adds “visual noise” to those threads, it seems like a form of vandalism, almost like graffiti. So while I accept that it’s sometimes desirable to use two reactions, I have to question why one person is allowed to use *every* reaction at once. Surely it would be reasonable to impose some limit?

Apart from the timeout idea, I have no real suggestions. I would simply like to know if this behavior is in fact intentional / desirable. For my part, I doubt I would ever use more than two at a time, and that rarely. But I think it’s worth considering ways to minimize spam in any form; and whereas one or two reactions may be quite reasonable, using them all together strikes me as spamming. Personally, I find it distracting, and believe it detracts from whatever discussion is being had. But that’s just me, and I’m open to other perspectives.

Cheers

Now there's a guy with a sense of humor!

Let people display their childishness if they really want to. Sure it's somewhat distracting, but also ignore-able.

Why do you care?

Mʳ Pushwood: 😉

Mʳ Scribbles: Never said I did. (Looks like the joke’s on you. 😛) In all seriousness, see the last paragraph of the OP, where your question was answered before it was asked.

TCF: Touché.

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So how about adding more emotes? The current selection is fairly comprehensive, so I suppose most possible additions would simply be redundant. E.g. 👏 is unneeded in lieu of 👍, and 💋 because of 🧡. However, we don’t currently have anything like one of these: 😉 😢 🤷 And if we did, I for one would use them all the time. …

🐖 🍺 🍻
Ein schwein, drei bier!

Actually, I thought of a better reason than any I gave above. While this is obviously a thumb up:

👍 1

This is less obviously a thumb up:

👍 2 👎 1 😄 1 🤔 1 🧡 1 🦄 1

(Even though it’s technically two thumbs up.) So it’s not so much pollution, as dilution that’s the (potential) problem with such spamming. In a nutshell, that’s the only thing I might object to (hypothetically, in some instances, where it could be construed as rude).

In other words, it’s an issue of information vs. noise. I have at least a slight preference for information, or I’d never bother reading anything. 😅 And I suppose I resent the extra second required to parse information that’s been diluted thus.

#6 Changing the Horsey emoji/reaction for a unicorn will create riots on all forums.
I don't think that would be wise 😂

I don't like the emoji/reaction system at all. It makes threads too colourful, and I have seen people use it in a negative way, such as spamming.
But if we could disable them from our view, for example by one click in our profile settings.
Then I wouldn't care what others do with their emoji/reactions.
(But perhaps that requires at lot of coding?)

If not, perhaps limit the amount of emoji/reactions people can cast per day to, I don't know, 3 or 5?
This will make people think more about what posts, they thinks deserves a like/dislike etc.

Also, the fact that people can like their own post, just seems weird to me. I can't see any purpose for that.
(Other that it would require additional coding to prevent it, which I admit is a valid reason)

Adding more emoji/reactions would just create additional confusion to the mix... for example, the Horsey... What does it even mean?
And some people wanna add more? Mermaids, unicorns, and 7 different kinds of smily faces?

I play on a phone, and I don't like or use the reaction system, it's in the way, sometimes I unintentionally cast a emoji/reaction when scrolling up and down a page. If I notice it, then I will correct it, but of I don't...

Imagine this:
#1 my mom just got run over by a truck.
Someone unintentionally cast a 👍
Then everyone else thinks that person is a horrible human being for liking that comment.
And soon insults starts flying, over nothing but a misunderstanding.
(My mom is fine, this was just an extreme example)

I have seen on multiple occasions, topics being highjacked when someone ask another person, why they dislike their comments.

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