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I know that the majority of the members with moderation powers on this forum dislike the use of the "reactions" feature. Is this something that is also going to be removed from slack?

Personally I quite liked it as it allowed be to express some feeling or thought on a particular point or post without having to pointlessly reply (sometimes It would have only required a one word reply; wasting time)

Was the reason it was removed down to misuse?

5 hours ago, Alex Hodgkinson said:

I know that the majority of the members with moderation powers on this forum dislike the use of the "reactions" feature. Is this something that is also going to be removed from slack?

Personally I quite liked it as it allowed be to express some feeling or thought on a particular point or post without having to pointlessly reply (sometimes It would have only required a one word reply; wasting time)

Was the reason it was removed down to misuse?

I think it's more of a way for certain staff members to make sure the division's shared views are made known without any confusions. 

Think of it as a way to restrict most people's views on new decisions or forum posts to make the division more (may I quote) 'strong and stable.'

May I ask the reason behind this?

Is it not pretty ridiculous that the only way we are now allowed to respond to a post is in a positive way?

In my opinion, it is pretty silly. Again, my own opinion on the matter.

3 minutes ago, Ryan Alderton said:

Is it not pretty ridiculous that the only way we are now allowed to respond to a post is in a positive way?

Nothing's stopping you from responding critically to a post (as you have done here). I guess it just requires a bit more justification to the argument rather than simply clicking a button?

Edited January 14, 2018 by Andy Ford

3 hours ago, Fraser Barnes said:

I think it's more of a way for certain staff members to make sure the division's shared views are made known without any confusions. 

Think of it as a way to restrict most people's views on new decisions or forum posts to make the division more (may I quote) 'strong and stable.'

Hi Fraser

The intention is certainly not to restrict people in expressing their viewpoint.  If you cast your mind back (cue Scooby Doo 'esk flashback sequence) to before reputation was a thing on our forum, I don't think anyone felt restricted by not being able to react using icons in a variety of different ways.

Once the community team have had a chance to assess all of the options and shortlist the ones that will work within our systems, we will let you all know via this news channel.

If anyone would like to discuss any ideas or concerns they may have via voice instead of via the forum, please send me an e-mail or slack PM and I can arrange that with you.

Many thanks
Barrie

I'm sure it's not that difficult to write a comment as to why you disagree with a post, find it confusing (asking a question could help here) and say why you find something amusing. Simply taking reactions and emoticons away won't affect people's ability to state their opinions. Instead, all you have to do is write a comment. I guess it's also like what Andy said:

47 minutes ago, Andy Ford said:

Nothing's stopping you from responding critically to a post (as you have done here). I guess it just requires a bit more justification to the argument rather than simply clicking a button?

Anyway, they're disabled to test new systems + features. If they work, we might even get them back. 

whats the point of adding them, if your going to remove them?

2 hours ago, Andrew Pym said:

whats the point of adding them, if your going to remove them?

I imagine it was used as a way as expressing emotions etc. Obviously they didn't add them and think a few months later 'Oh no, we'll get rid of them because we don't like them'.

Common sense really and it has been explained what is going to happen.

Edited January 15, 2018 by James Brierley

Sometimes if I disagree with someone i'd use the "confused" emotion. I purposely didnt post because I didnt want to interrupt the flow of the discussion by "hijacking" the thread and other valuabe discussions get lost. 

Shouldn't make much of a difference, just comment using text emoticons instead :) :P 

 

Edited January 18, 2018 by Shaquille Henry