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Veritula should have some way to acknowledge an idea, including a way to show that a thread is resolved, at least for the time being, without having to comment.

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Dennis HackethalOP·#2159

How about emoji reactions?

Battle tested

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Dennis HackethalOP·#2166

Reactions can be ambiguous. It wouldn’t always be clear which part of an idea someone is reacting to.

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Dennis HackethalOP·#2458

I could implement reactions on a per-paragraph basis.

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Dennis HackethalOP·#2461

It isn’t clear what would happen during a revision. A paragraph might be changed or deleted. Too complicated.

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Dennis HackethalOP·#2462

But presumably, the same is true for reactions to ideas as a whole. Reactions would have to be removed for revisions.

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Dennis HackethalOP·#2463

For reactions to paragraphs, at least you could tell if the content someone reacted to has changed, and only then remove the reaction.

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Benjamin Davies·#2468

Why should reacts persist through revisions?

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Benjamin Davies·#2469

Nevermind, this was addressed by #2462

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Dennis HackethalOP·#2464

Then what does somebody do who wants to react to an idea as a whole? Do they react to the last paragraph?

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Dennis HackethalOP·#2465

The way I picture it, as you hover over different paragraphs, a reaction button appears and moves between paragraphs. So it would always be clear that reactions are on specific paragraphs. The user would pick whatever paragraph they most wish to react to.

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Dennis HackethalOP·#4101

But this doesn’t address the scenario where someone wants to react to no particular paragraph but the idea as a whole.

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Dennis HackethalOP·#4109

Too complicated/ambitious for a first implementation. Start piecemeal. But could be a promising approach if reactions to ideas as a whole end up being ambiguous (#2166).

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