# "Nodding your head" in online communication

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**Category:** Feature\
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**Created:** [2013 年2 月 3 日 11:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/nodding-your-head-in-online-communication/30 "2013-02-03T11:21:13Z")\
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作者： ![hellekin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hellekin/32/51636_2.png) [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)\
发布日期： [2016 年2 月 29 日 14:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/nodding-your-head-in-online-communication/30/28 "2016-02-29T14:51:57Z")

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I agree with @pekka original post: `like` and `acknowledge` are different. Yet, **I’m not convinced it makes much difference in practice.**

If Facebook is designing 6 “moods” to replace the unique “like” button, it’s because they’re into the surveillance business, and want to gain value by sorting the emotions of people. But Discourse is a different animal.

**In any case, such notification should be voluntary to protect privacy.** I don’t know about you, but I’ve never ever sent a reading notification by email. It’s only to relieve the tension of your correspondent, and doesn’t bring anything else than expectation from them.

OTOH I’d appreciate to know when someone **bookmarks** one of my posts, because it’s meaningful with regard to the kind of stimulation people get from my writing: if they bookmark it, it’s probably because it’s a reference, or because they want to act on it later. But that’s already different from nodding.

I see a couple of options to handle this nodding:

1. **do nothing** : let people use ❤ to acknowledge and like
2. **replace `like` with `ack`** and change the icon to ✔ or something more neutral.
3. **propose a choice of icons** , with like as default (i.e., if you click and 1 second passes without more action, it’s a ❤) and other choices such as 💔, 😐, 😆, :grumpycat:, etc.

I’d go for 1 personally (I 💓 ❤)

Although 3 sounds “diverse”, I’d recommend against it, because u not want ppl tlkng as if they wrote sms. :troll: :lol: :lol:

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