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Re:Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments by minimaxir on Thursday March 10, 2016 @05:22PM (#11262966)
I recently wrote a post about Facebook Reactions and if it would be effective at helping quantify sentiment. (http://minimaxir.com/2016/02/facebook-reactions/) The tl;dr is that I believe that Reactions are redundant outside of positive/negative classification.

GitHub actually has both +1 and -1, which satisfies me. But there's not much productive purpose with a smile/heart/tada other than to be quirky. (The thinking_face is neutral and adds nothing in this aspect)

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Re:Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments by dpflan on Thursday March 10, 2016 @05:31PM (#11263032)
Yeah, as I asked below: Will this be a meaningful form of communication and is the language (subset of images) sufficient? Can small changes like this perhaps change how PRs, Comments, etc are treated? Will it be productive, a distraction, or a NOOP?
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