Appeal to definition fallacy.
Colloquially, social media = sharing content, networking, and engagement. The devforum is mainly to share feedback and knowledge, not to share content. There is only one category on the entire forum for the latter, #help-and-feedback:creations-feedback .
The dev forum is not your typical social media platform like instagram, twitter, etc.
IMO any resources invested into the forum should go into improving the ability to use it for its intended purpose.
What did you base this statement on? Reactions is a Discourse plugin, itâs not a default feature: Discourse Reactions - plugin - Discourse Meta
Recommend doing some research before pulling out dramatic statements.
I think a major reason why we should never do this here is because we want to encourage insightful replies that explain peoplesâ support or distaste for ideas, or thoughts in general.
Having granular reaction types encourages people to mindlessly click a button on the post without thinking and then move on, which is absolutely useless and downright harmful because this place is a discussion forum + communication channel with Roblox in terms of bug reports and feature requests.
If you want to participate in a discussion⌠participate in it.
If you want to show that you like something, thank someone, or acknowledge someone, the heart reaction does the job.
If you donât like something, write up some constructive criticism.
If you like a feature request, reply with your use cases for it.
If you are affected by a bug report, explain how it affects you and provide your information.
Yes, but as I already mentioned, it reduces flags, and off topic replies.
Most of the time, (you could probably go see it now) in #help-and-feedback:creations-feedback , people often reply with âI like itâ or âWow it looks so good!â. Those are often flagged for being off topic, filling up the flag queue. But with this, you could react with say 
, or 
.
Posts in #resources:community-resources or #resources:community-tutorials could be reacted to with showing that itâs helpful, instead of a generic âWow this is sooo helpful!â reply, then again reducing moderation flags.
It also makes posts more straightforward, minimizing the replies.
For example: a post in feedback.
You post a GFX, and 12 people reply with something along the lines of âWow this is sooo good!â, and 20 people have real feedback.
You want those 20 replies without the 12 mixed in, right?
And yes, I know the Summarize button exist, but it isnât that accurate and hides a bunch of replies that are real feedback.
These people leave these replies because they feel reactions are too impersonal, or they just donât think of it. Countless people have explicitly explained this in various other threads. Adding more will not change that.
⌠or maybe because such reaction system doesnât exist? or only exists in the form of a simple heart button?
Even GitHub has this feature. I donât see why it shouldnât be added here as well. Replies like these exist so thereâs clearly invisible demand for a feature like this (they almost look faked) :
It would be even more useful in giant topics such as WAYWOC
Itâs also the entire reply. Again, could 100% be replaced by emojis.
Nobody would replace these replies for more specific reaction emojis. These users are clearly replying because they are significantly impressed; replacing these with reactions would again fall into the âtoo impersonalâ category. Consider that these users could also have easily replaced these replies with likes. The heart is fully appropriate here. However, they did not.
You and OP do not understand how people on this forum think, and youâre all reaching and warping things to try to make this look like it will have any net benefit here whatsoever. It will not. Itâs just more noise onscreen, and more incentive to bypass leaving insightful replies that actually get things done. There is very small benefit to extremely niche situations sure, but these are not worth the culture shift this would cause.
Still canât see why this shouldnât be added when itâs just a small cosmetic change.
P.S. If you were the one who flagged my post thatâs really bizzare.
Because itâs pointless. âItâs just a small cosmetic change.â shouldnât be grounds for adding features.
I already pointed out why it should be added:
The rest of the replies in favor of this suggestion give off pretty good points as well.
And as far as I can tell, your points have been rebuked multiple times.
And again, you can just comment or like instead of having pointless reactions. Roblox wants us to engage in discussions here as can be seen by the fact that thereâs a character minimum that you need in order to even post something. Increasing the likes threshold (while still a unneeded change) would be much better than this.
The conversation here at this point is just going in a full circle. Unless, anyone here has something new to add, Iâd suggest to just sticking with liking that responses already here and you agree with
The replies for this feature request
Kinda daft way of looking at the situationâŚ
Not sure how I feel about this.
On one side, I can see how adding / 
would be helpful for answering questions and getting peopleâs opinions on things. People wouldnât need to make useless replies that barely get over the character limit to say âYesâ or âNo.â We could also see what percentage of users like/ dislike certain changes made to the platform by looking at the / reactions on posts made in #updates:announcements (because not everyone cares/ has the time to write a reply, and we could limit the need for 1000 replies that say the same thing).
My problem is; would adding reactions actually do any of these things? Some people just want to talk. Some people just want to reply, even if their words arenât needed or helpful.
My Opinion: Add / reactions at minimum. Reactions like 
arenât really needed, but I donât see special harm in adding them either.
To be honest a like is enough for a developer forum.
Actually, dislike wouldnt be good.
If a developer wants to know how did he get dislikes, how? someone must explain why
but they would instead use dislike
not to mention this would benefit bots instead.
Agree with this. A great example of what youâre saying is the ratings system on the platform itself. People have the chance to like and dislike it but no other way of saying why. What we have now is much better because of all the reasons that have been mentioned previously.
Fair point. I can definitely understand how that would be frustrating.
I was thinking that this would be more helpful for stuff in #updates:announcements. Take the audio update for example. If you think itâs a good idea, you can just like the post. If you donât, you have to write a reply, and in the process, you end up contributing to clutter.
Also, this doesnât apply to dislikes only. Someone might want to know why their posts are getting liked, but they donât know how.