Is there a way to insert a selectable 'mood' emoji next to users?

Hi,

We’ve been having some discussion about community harmony and it’s touched on the way a jokey response from one user can be misinterpreted by another, particularly depending on how each is feeling.

It was suggested that if there was a ‘mood’ emoji next to each person’s name this could help. I.e. someone can show they’re in a bad space and so prevent it.

Just wondered if there is a mod or something out there we could conceivably adjust to do this? Or if there’s a facility we just haven’t noticed that can do this?

TIA

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You’d need a plugin. It would add a custom field for their mood and then add it to the serializer. With that in place you could have the login or a theme component add the mood… Somewhere.

Some the mood changes… What is I post today when I’m mad at everything and then today I am in a great mood? Does the post include my mood when I posted? This seems like a tricky thing to work out.

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No, the idea is for your user detail to include that information so next to where your title is

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So it would only update when you changed it on your profile, it wouldn’t be on the post.

Thanks

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One slightly labor intensive way is to upload a different avatar, but it would require everyone editing avatars regularly.

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You could have a set of groups that had a flair that they could join and leave. I have a plugin that sets group membership according to a user custom field. That might do what you want. A theme component should also do something based on their primary group.

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Oh, thanks a lot. Is the flair thing a plugin?

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No. Flair is in the group settings.

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