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I would say that "he is wrong in your opinion somehow". We have a huge amount of topics in here and some of them are quite controversal and heated discussed. And some of the postes have at least the same amount of agree and disagree reactions. Does that mean that the statement itself is neccessarily wrong? I think not.
Let's say i make a post about my favorite topic espionage. Then i can be sure most of my posts have about an equal amount of reactions (sometimes more in one direction, granted). But what many of the people disagree want to say is "i don't want to deal with espionage so i don't want buffs" while the statement itself "espionage is weak and need much more power for the cost" is technically correct.
Thats why i prefer a discussion over a reaction. I want to know the arguements of others, thats why we are forum posters. Sure some post here are obvious trolling, insulting or stubborn. But thats the minority after all. And most of us are always open for another point of view.
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Dear OP,
I disrespectfully disagree with you loads. Like lots. A huge amount. And I don't care if you care or don't care. I hug my Xs. They validate me. They give me purpose.
edit - I accept only Xs and Helpfuls. Agrees confuse me.
I disrespectfully disagree with you loads. Like lots. A huge amount. And I don't care if you care or don't care. I hug my Xs. They validate me. They give me purpose.
edit - I accept only Xs and Helpfuls. Agrees confuse me.
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Sells more games. Duh. For everything else, there's reddit.
It's also up to the beholder to decide if a "haha" react means the post being reacted to is funny (a good joke or something) or mocking laughter. Reaction roulette!
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Change the negative reaction to "I disagree and will elaborate"
No one will ever use it anymore
No one will ever use it anymore
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I will use it every dev diary as to hint where is Espionage changes
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I don't actually disagree with you, my inner perfectionist gremlin couldn't stand that you didn't have the full set.
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Precisely, if you react with it you have to elaborate in a reply or you're a coward, and internet honor is very important to maintain
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Honestly the most baffling thing I found about reactions is that they're all public information. I don't just mean the reaction score on a post, that's normal these days. I mean how you can go into your profile history (or someone else's profile) and see exactly who reacted to each post, which is something most sites don't allow for non-moderators. I'm not sure why this feature exists, especially given all the pro-privacy stuff coming out of the EU. I guess in the optimistic case you could see who disagreed with you and have a civil discussion? In reality it just leads to users X-brigading users they don't like or calling their vote out publicly in the topic (which is about as effective as someone whining about downvotes).
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There used to be a time when you could see who reacted to anyone's post, not just yours.
It made for some interesting drama because if somebody disagreed with a bunch of posts, you could just call them on it.
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We're not too far from that state right now. Like I can go to your profile and see every post you reacted to. The only thing I can't do is see who all reacted to someone else's specific post, but all it takes is a post author to check and publicly call out someone in a contentious thread and then everyone else knows to check that person's profile where they can see all the reactions taken. This has happened several times on the Victoria 3 forums this year.
TBH, I don't think either feature is needed. I don't need to know who specifically disagrees with me nor do I need other people scrutinizing my votes. Apparently setting your profile to private suppresses that but hides the useful "this person also posted in X" tab. Or at least, I find that "other posts" feature useful for seeing e.g. where PDX devs have chimed in on other topics that I missed, but the public reactions have opened them up to people scrutinizing PDX employee reaction votes.
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Its standard modern day corporate culture. Everything needs to push you towards good feels. We feel like "disliking" isn't very productive.
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An unelaborated "Dislike" doesn't tell you how to do better.
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." — Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (as translated)
Want to give negative feedback? Use your words. Or "Like" someone else who's already used theirs.
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Considering that you can write whatever words you like (including disparaging Paradox, its employees, and its games), and people then have 4 different forms of positive interaction and only one negative to react to that, I think the "toxic positivity" complaint misses the mark.
There's some enforced minimum civility, which that might better apply to, but people generally see the use of that, so it doesn't get as much ire.
There's some enforced minimum civility, which that might better apply to, but people generally see the use of that, so it doesn't get as much ire.
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I find that sometimes I just disagree but feel like elaboration would not help, and I prefer to cut down on situations where my first reply is snark. Reactions are good for that.
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