About why it is super easy to accidentally press 
with this plugin: in a forum with this plugin, when scrolling, if the starting place of scrolling is on the button, the button is triggered; on the other hand, in a forum without this plugin, scrolling like this will not trigger . A lot of users on our forum is complaining about this issue, and I hope it can be fixed!
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Users are discussing an issue with the Reactions plugin where the button is easily accidentally triggered when scrolling. physixfan reported this issue, which is also experienced on mobile devices, as noted by tobiaseigen. physixfan suggested distinguishing between scrolling and pressing, proposing that scrolling should not trigger the button, while short pressing = like, and long pressing = more reactions. However, tobiaseigen questioned whether this is a matter of user behavior rather than a bug, suggesting that users can learn to avoid pressing the heart when scrolling. JonathanShaw supported physixfan’s suggestion, confirming that scrolling while touching the like button does not trigger the like on meta, indicating a potential bug.
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I’e noticed this on mobile too - when you scroll with your finger with a short press and happen to touch the heart, it is selected as you scroll. A long press displays the menu to choose a reaction as it scrolls by. Personally I am not so bothered by this - you can always select the heart again to quickly remove the like or select outside the reactions list to hide it again. Is there an alternative, better experience that you or your users can suggest?
It’s better to distinguish scrolling and pressing: scrolling should not trigger ; short pressing = like, and long pressing = more reactions. Do you think this will have better user experience?
But is this not a case of “don’t do that?” Once you learn once or twice by accidentally liking and then unliking, you avoid pressing the heart when scrolling?
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Yeah I can learn that, however, there are a lot of users on our forum complaining about this. It is really easy to accidentally touch that button while scrolling…
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That’s surely right, this is a bug.
If you try here on meta, scrolling while touching like doesn’t trigger the like.
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Closing in favour of Discourse Reactions accidental likes