# "Changed my mind" (icon: graduation cap)
In most communities, this is a overload of the upvote. But it's a particularly good kind of upvote, the complement of the usual echo-chamber "upvoting because I already agree". The icon+phrasing combo reframes "I lost the debate" into a positive thing, more like "I was educated". It's my far my favorite reaction to receive -- lots of warm fuzzies. In order to avoid confusion/misuse, we did not make this the primary upvote (that's thumbs up, with the verb "appreciate").
# Sympathies (icon: blue ribbon)
It's a bit tasteless to "like" or "heart" sad news (eg, someone passed away). At the same time, a downvote isn't appropriate, either. This fills the role of "support for the person posting, not the topic they're posting about".
[1]: You can see some of it, as well as the full set, here: https://community.snowdrift.coop/t/custom-emojis-esp-as-reto...
The only thing that's 'missing' is the public declaration; putting one's name to the upvote.
Something like:
I've bookmarked this for later review, good post (this partially exists as the upvote)
I like posts like this (an overload of the upvote)
I want to read what other users think of this, but don't necessarily have a comment of my own. HN, please comment (an overload of the upvote as well)
I think this post is off-topic (this one exists - its called the downvote for users with ~520+ points)
I think this post violates the guidelines (this one also exists - called flag)