# Testing Boosts on Meta

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [April 3, 2026, 9:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835 "2026-04-03T09:09:47Z")
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### Author: ![jordan.vidrine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jordan.vidrine/32/515563_2.png) [@jordan.vidrine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan.vidrine)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2026, 9:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835/74 "2026-04-09T21:45:59Z")

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You won’t need to use this if you don’t want to. Not all discourse features or plugins are made for everyone and I think that’s fine.

However, if you’d like to use them:

> [@hellekin](#):
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> I can see a lot of negative “boosts” coming in, like “Meh”, “Duh”, “Boring”, “Pfff”, “Mmmm” and other stuff that really does not bring _anything_ to the conversation.

Boosts will be moderate-able. You can also just delete them as admin and deal with the offending user.

> [@hellekin](#):
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> this feature does not seem to bring anything useful to thoughtful conversation.

Maybe? Maybe not. I think that fun features are totally appropriate and not all things need to have a pragmatic goal other than “fun”.

> [@hellekin](#):
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> is this for mass consumption and debilitating people, or is this to make the world a better place?

I get where you are coming from but I think Silicon Valley has made itself seem more important than it really is. The world’s problems will not be solved by software and this type of concern while warranted I don’t think is beneficial to a discussion on a fun feature in an open source platform that is a drop in the ocean compared to the content that exists in the world.

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