Re:Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments
by munro on Friday March 11, 2016 @12:56PM
(#11268246)
What users wanted was a way to gauge what features are more important, so maintainers could prioritize the important issues to the community. All asked for was to be able to up vote _issues_, and be able to sort. [1]
Instead we got reactions, and it completely missed the mark. They've made it easier to be passive aggressive. Also it lingers on your post, instead of having the unconstructive comment stand on it's own. How does one respond to a down vote, make another comment saying "... hmm?"? It's weird.
Re:Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments
by tamana on Thursday March 10, 2016 @09:30PM
(#11264250)
It's naive to think that users will prefer the discreet way of expressing disapproval. They want to be loud.
Re:Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments
by spoondan on Thursday March 10, 2016 @10:36PM
(#11264498)
Facebook and Twitter provide strong evidence that people will use reactions. I see no reason to expect that user behavior will differ when they want to express negativity. Facebook's decision to not provide this feature has long been rooted on the pretense that people will use it. That is the basis of this thread: that people will use it instead of commenting.
Also, it's really easy to disagree with what I wrote without suggesting I am naive.
Re:Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments
by Ensorceled on Friday March 11, 2016 @06:54AM
(#11266045)
> Also, it's really easy to disagree with what I wrote without suggesting I am naive.
Hence proving the commenters point about negative comments :-/
While we can agree about what users should do, users not behaving as we think they should is the whole point here. Removing the -1 reaction won't encourage people to articulate their concerns. Nor will it discourage people from writing comments that explain why something is not a good idea. It simply provides a mechanism for people to register disagreement that is less obtrusive than the mechanism they would otherwise use. A cavalcade of -1's as comments obscures and thereby prevents substantive discussion.