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:

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

Retort is a plugin which allows you to add slack-style reactions to posts [7vHi2j74Rg] Install it using the standard plugin installation instructions. It’s stable, supported, and works with the latest Discourse. Check out the code, or view it live on the demo site (note that you’ll need to make an account to use the plugin) If you have a bug or feature request, please post it here (and tag me, @gdpelican), and I’ll respond as quickly as I can. Cool features Category-specific retortions …

[JammyDodger]

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