Love, Hate, Sad, Laughter

[TimothyDonaghue (Timothy)]

Have we considered a feature similar to Facebook where a user can Love / Hate / Sad / Laughter rather than Like only? Or perhaps a Like / Dislike dichotomy?

I assume this has been considered but did not pass judgement. May I please know a snippet of logic behind why not?

[TimothyDonaghue (Timothy)]

Sam had said this apparently:

@sam

Hi you are putting words in my mouth

We strayed from the whole downvoting thing at Discourse for very good reason. I feel downvoting often discourages civilized Discourse which makes it contrary to our core mission.

Supporting various vote types is something that is in core, exposing downvote functionality is not something that will be a core site setting.

How do we use the ‘various vote types’ feature?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

I am pretty sure there are other topics on this, feel free to add to them.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Also see

Retort - a reaction-style plugin for Discourse

NB This has recently been given a new lease of life thanks to sponsorship of @Hifihedgehog & the community at https://forum.tabletpc.review/ and is compatible with Ember 5 and Discourse 3.2 (and so far 3.3.x), but the message is still the same, unless you really want to use Retort, please consider Reactions as that will eventually take on some of the Retort exclusive features (timeline TBD). Retort is a plugin which allows you to add slack-style reactions to posts [7vHi2j74Rg] Install it u…

[JammyDodger]

To round this one out with the official plugin info, we now have Discourse Reactions