# "Nodding your head" in online communication

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/nodding-your-head-in-online-communication/30>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** completed\
**Created:** [February 3, 2013, 11:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/nodding-your-head-in-online-communication/30 "2013-02-03T11:21:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![stienman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stienman/32/119811_2.png) [@stienman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stienman)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/nodding-your-head-in-online-communication/30/12 "2013-02-04T17:31:47Z")

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I’d prefer not having something that tells people when I’ve personally read a post. Seems like a tiny invasion of privacy, but an invasion nonetheless.

However, I agree that it would be nice to have a few more options for marking a post publicly. I might, for instance, agree with a post, but not like it, so I wouldn’t want to click like, but just adding another post saying, “I believe you’re right.” feels noisy to me.

However, I don’t believe this should be in the core - this is plugin territory, and someone will eventually come up with a plugin that allows administrators to allow a variety of post ratings. Like, hug, disagree, funny, informative, bro-fist, etc will appear in those forums where the administrator believes they have value.

Until then, though, like simple and straightforward.

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