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

@applechime Your time is here. Your time is now

 

i have a hugs option now hell yes

 

some threads now have this on them

what is this, what does it mean
i think it's part of this update, i don't remember it from before

 

I think it's "number of likes the first post of the thread has received"?

Because you've always been able to see that when you hover over the replies/views for the thread, and the numbers there seem to match the numbers that show up next to the thread now.

But yes it is new, so presumably it was caused by this add-on.

 

It doesn't seem to correspond to whether I've posted in a thread, been pinged in a thread, or the number of accounts I follow that have posted in it.

There's some common numbers between # of likes the original post of the thread got, but I can see a few threads in the first page of General Chatter where the first post has likes, but there's no x# on the thread. :|a

 

i rise............. i deliver The Hugs...........

 

I dunno if Seebs is sciencing behind the scenes, but notifications seem to be a bit wonky for non-Like ratings. I got a "witnessed" rating earlier and got an alert, but got a "funny" one just now and didn't.

 

I got a ton of likes on my picture of Jasper but didn't get notified for anything. Or a reply to the thread

 

Yeah, it being the same size as the Reply was making it hard to navigate for me for some reason. May just be brain bugs.

 

To weigh in on the Informative/Useful and Hugs debate, I think that Hugs can be done without, since we have 'Witnessed', with a post made to ask permission on that. And I'm not seeing the distinction between Informative and Useful, so one of those could also be done without.

 

witnessed and hugs have completely different connotations for me. agree that hugs could maybe be replaced with some more generic word for comfort that maybe doesn't imply physical contact to people who arent up for that, but hugs could be used with a lighter tone than witnessed, which i associate with death/traumatic events/etc. theres some overlap, probably, but i wouldnt witness a bunch of adorable cat pictures - i would hug them, though.

 

I think there's a valid difference between Informative and Useful, but also that realistically, in terms of reacting to forum posts, most of the time they're going to come out to the same thing. So I'm not sure the difference is enough to be worth having both.

The question is really, is the point of the rating system to make sure there's an option for all possible reactions to a post, or just to provide enough options that people aren't stuck picking inappropriate responses? Because I think the first case is a bad idea, because it'll get unwieldy really fast, and in the second case, the Informative/Useful distinction isn't really necessary.

 

But therein lies the issue with just changing it. If you do swap 'hugs' for 'comfort' or something, it no longer applies to cute animal pictures either.

 

Pic of seebs behind the scenes messing with the site.

 

Well the like is still there.
And I dunno does it make such a big difference if you type a tiny word or press a button? Isn´t the sentiment the same?

 

For me personally? No, the sentiment isn't.