I forgot to convey my thoughts on Amethyst here..
I think the reaction, in addition to 1984, is unnecessary. The fact that its happening without the user being informed is an unexpected result.
If users wanted to leave a reaction they could do that before the 1984 report. Or the dialog/panel that the user goes through could offer that as a choice.
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Agreed on all points, with the qualification that there are probably some emojis you can safely map to + (❤️ and 👍) come to mind. But I could probably be convinced otherwise.
👍 can also be neutral or sarcastic implying a negative depending on context and participants. like a "thats cool but we dont care"
That's fair. Human language is much more than can be compressed into a binary up/down vote, even for the simplest single-character pictograms.