# Love, Hate, Sad, Laughter
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/love-hate-sad-laughter/59517
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [Mars 20, 2017, 4:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/love-hate-sad-laughter/59517 "2017-03-20T04:36:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@TimothyDonaghue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TimothyDonaghue)
#### Post date: [Mars 20, 2017, 4:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/love-hate-sad-laughter/59517/1 "2017-03-20T04:36:30Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@TimothyDonaghue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TimothyDonaghue)
#### Post date: [Mars 20, 2017, 4:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/love-hate-sad-laughter/59517/2 "2017-03-20T04:43:17Z")
Sam had said this apparently:
> [@sam](#):
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> Hi you are putting words in my mouth 😃
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> 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.
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> 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?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Mars 20, 2017, 5:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/love-hate-sad-laughter/59517/3 "2017-03-20T05:33:33Z")
I am pretty sure there are other topics on this, feel free to add to them.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Mars 20, 2017, 5:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/love-hate-sad-laughter/59517/4 "2017-03-20T05:33:35Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [Mars 20, 2017, 12:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/love-hate-sad-laughter/59517/5 "2017-03-20T12:01:12Z")
Also see
> [@Discourse Retort](https://meta.discourse.org/t/retort-a-reaction-style-plugin-for-discourse/35903):
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> NB This has recently been given a new lease of life thanks to sponsorship of @Hifihedgehog & the community at [https://forum.tabletpc.review/](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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-reactions/183261) 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 Install it u…
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [Avril 20, 2024, 8:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/love-hate-sad-laughter/59517/6 "2024-04-20T08:51:56Z")
Pour compléter avec les informations du plugin #official, nous avons maintenant [Discourse Reactions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-reactions/183261)