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[sophus]

Most of my online friends are rationalist-adjacent, so I suppose that makes me rationalist-adjacent-adjacent. Thus:
Hello everyone, I'm sophus! I'm from the glowfic corner of the rodent-sphere. If you know me, it's probably from Amentumblr; I'm also Sophus#7079 on Discord and sophus-b on realblr if you've met me there.

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The tumblr function that I most miss here on Dreamwidth is the like button; it was nice to have a low spoons way to show my appreciation of someone's post. However, I've anecdotally heard that some people are using comments with only "+1" and/or "<3" as a kludgy equivalent.

I know that executive dysfunction is fairly common amongst my corner of the diaspora, at least, and I think this idea merits discussion: adopting this, or a similar social norm for the community here would be valuable. I like positive feedback in any form, and I know many others here do too, so a solution that makes it easier to give positive feedback would be extremely useful.

Comments

[empresszo]

That definitely works, and I'd use it, but worry it looks worse (than the likes thread for a whole post does) for some reason. Mostly because a likes-thread-comment for the post is easy to scroll by and be done with, but a likes-thread-comment for a comment would end up splitting earlier and later responses to it.

Then again, reading/replying to individual threads seems like a way around that, sort of. It's just not as smooth.

These sorts of things make me wonder whether there's enough popular demand to justify investigating how difficult implementing likes would be, and what 'next steps' might be after that (like starting a bounty, maybe).

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[flamingsword]

Starting a bounty? I am not familiar with that term applied to the web.

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[sophus]

Explanation: Open-source bounties

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[flamingsword]

Huh. Cool.