Rating System (was: what even are social noises round N+1)

I don't like sympathy at all, it feels stilted idk, like someone coming up to you and saying "sympathy" and then walking away.

 

I mean, any sympathy-type rating option is going to be stilted, though. It's a single word. If people want to express more nuance, they can comment, but I like a way of saying HERE HAVE THIS SENTIMENT in a nice simple compact way because I'm super shy and can never bring myself to comment, especially on stuff involving other people's emotions.

 

i think the sympathy/comfort noises button should be "tea"

 

Tea?

 

As in offering a cup of.

 

ACTUALLY YES THAT IS NOW THE OPTION I SUPPORT. TEA. FUCK THE HEART AND SYMPATHY JUST TEA.

 

I pretty sure the whole sipping/spilling tea meme(s) has given that one some other connotations :P

 

No it has not and I WILL SLAP THE CREATOR OF THAT MEME YOU DO NOT TAKE MY TEA FROM ME D:<

 

Holy shit @spockandawe, the freak out when asked to do something while doing something else, the fucking gap between monitors. SAME HAT

 

I think it's kinda weird, for the record, to get rid of funny when it's one of the ones I see used most. But that's not the hill I wanna die on if people dislike it. Winner is more my type of hill.

 

What if you changed "Hugs" to "Hugs Available"? I know someone said that "hugs offered" or "hugs if you want" seems like a thing which they have to either reject or accept, but "available" feels to me more like "there's tea in the kitchen if you want, feel free to help yourself to it," "there's a hug here if you want, feel free to help yourself to it," and less like "here is a hug, take it or leave me hanging."

 

Data point: I've found myself liking the idea of using 'Useful' in my abuse thread because a grand majority of the time, the supportive noises people make at me there are super useful to me. 'Informative' feels like the wrong reaction in cases where I technically knew the thing but my brain was being bad about it, but 'Useful' communicates that it was a helpful post and I appreciated it. I can very easily use 'Like' to get across the same message, so I'm not going to make too much noise about 'Useful' disappearing - but it doesn't look like anyone's brought up that potential use of the 'Useful' reaction yet, so I figured I'd speak up about it.

 

People are hung up on it due to finding it comforting or liking it. At the least that's why I'd like to keep it even though I know we aren't.

 

Yep! Which is fine with it going. Just wanted to clarify why people are upset or want to keep it or otherwise just keep talking about it. At least from my side.

 

I would btw greatly prefer we pick useful or informative, or keep both, but not smudge them. As fun as the mush words are, they are to me unusable because either i mean useful or I mean informative, but I never mean usemative because what does that even mean?

 

please

 

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