Me and many others have found that the current emojis and reactions (IE "Like" or "agree"), do not allow us to show some things we wish to show. Such as a facepalm emoji or reaction, for when someone says something excessively obvious, or "dumb". Also, we could use a "dislike" or at least a "Disagree" reaction. However, we could still use more "random" emojis and reactions such as a laughing emoji, or other "random" emojis and reactions.
I posted a while back in random posting thread that i wanded to beable t use emji as reacion especially the emogi
imma take the other side and make a counterargument (which might also be dev reason as to why its like it is.) Currently we only have positive reactions, look at any other platform, it really quickly turns into negativity train and it easily becomes toxic when you can dislike, disagree or such (reddit downvote hivemade (everyone starts disliking when they see the comment has negative rating), or twitter ratios).
However, there can be some cases where you want negative reactions. On Youtube, for example, I can dislike every BeamNG Shorts video and yet the only thing you will see is the upvotes, so people seeing it will think that the only reactions are positive.
IIRC, it was because disagreement ended up being too easy. Even people using it to legitimately disagree with things would never elaborate on their viewpoint in any constructive manner, but that took a backseat to the perennial selection of edgy 'Cool Kids' dunking on anything popular or earnest because it was more fun than actually making something of their own or having a conversation. Even the 'informative' rating had to be cut, as it was being used sarcastically as a form of 'dislike'.
Well if you want someone to stop doing something, you can just click a button instead of writing a reply. Even in development media, if (for some god awful reason) the devs post something dumb or disliked, we can say "we don't like that" without hoping they see the update speculation thread
i made a thread about a year ago about i wanted a cute emoji and i believe someone made custom pixel art for it and i still use it to this day!. i'm sorry i forgot who it was
That's great logic when you're dealing with agreement-there's really only one dimension to 'I like or agree with this and want to see/hear more of it'-but disagreement can mean many things. If I post a screenshot of a WIP mod in Development Screens and it gets a dislike, I can't know what the reactor meant by it. Do they mean that they see issue with the execution and/or workflow I'm using, do they not like the very concept of the mod itself, or are they just being an asshole? If they're forced to leave a reply, they'll elaborate and I won't be left wondering. And yes, it will be just as easy for someone to reply with legitimate critique (they don't have to use the ratings, etc), but it's now way, way easier to bully users. The honest applications are far outnumbered by the dishonest ones. Chances are that if they post or tease something that controversial, they either A. Will be carefully vetting feedback and will actually be paying close attention to threads (such as Update Speculation), or B. Have to do what they're doing for business or technical reasons, and it won't be up to a vote anyway.
I just want the eye looking emoji, I use that one quite often Turns out though, images sort of do the trick (Don't bother though, I just done it for the sake of it)
I meant that is one of the emojis you can select. I'm pretty sure all of these are from an open-source database.
