Emoji/Reactions in Merit

[alegotardo]

Hi, I apologize if a similar suggestion already has been made here, but I've noticed that some people are using the system of merit for any other things like "ok, I saw it, noted, congratulations, ......" simply to signal that they saw the post without necessarily create a reply just to say that, is unnecessary.

For example: In a campaign topic, someone said they ranked up or change your wallet adrress. The manager simply leaves a merit to note signal that they saw the post and are marking it in your records. This is sufficient for them, the participant does not wait for the manager to make a reply post, as they know the message was transmitted.

This is just one situation, but there are countless others where the system of merit is used for similar purposes. I do not see this as a problem but I believe we could use the system of meritwith a "plus" where (and simple implementation), along with the merit note, its possible to choose an icon that symbolizes some human reaction and makes that merit note more intuitive regarding the purpose of the person who left it.

example:

What do you think about this?

[adultcrypto]

The merit system is enough and just working fine, I don't see why a new emoji will be introduced, the beauty of such introduction is not worth the stress it will give the forum management to code. Secondly, people are at liberty to use their merit as they please as long as the the user did not commit the things outlined as merit abuse. In conclusion, the merit system is perfectly OK for me and no new addition is needed.

[NeuroticFish]

What do you think about this?

Let's say we'd implement that and somebody would give 50 times one merit, each time with different emoji. Did you think about that?
Using only the first or the last would be unfair, using all of them would be spam.

No. Really, no! Let's not make this a new Facebook.

[alegotardo]

What do you think about this?

Let's say we'd implement that and somebody would give 50 times one merit, each time with different emoji. Did you think about that?
Using only the first or the last would be unfair, using all of them would be spam.

No. Really, no! Let's not make this a new Facebook.

I understand, the idea needs to be refined, and because of this I asked for ideas here.
And no, the idea is not to turn this into a Facebook... the idea is to include useful emojis, with a limited number of them, and that make sense for the purposes people already use them for today.

So tell me... is the system of merit only being used to "give merit" to posts of people? No, we've moved beyond that.
As I said, I do not see a problem with that, but perhaps it would be interesting to make it more intuitive, even so that in the future we can classify the merits someone has received.

Anyway, all opinions are welcome, thank you for yours.

[Mia Chloe]

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Ohhk..  before we actually start considering this your idea let's look at what we have already and it's use rate. First let's start with smileys, check closely you barely see users make use of them even in cases where there is a touch of humour in the write up and same goes for regular emojis it's barely used on the forum.

What the admins are considering is having too many fancy features that in the end nobody uses it's one of the reasons suggestions like this are barely implemented.

[eternalgloom]

Hmm, a small ENUM column can be added to the current merits table, which will have some fixed values ​​like 👍, ✅, ❤️, 👏. Then when the user submits the merit, there is no more hassle to see those options as a dropdown in the front-end.

The thing is, I am worried we might lose the forum's clean and simple look. Remember how those animated avatar trashed the place? It was total eye-gore.

[mindrust]

Bad idea.

This is a serious forum for serious investors. Altcointalks is the Chinese brothel you are looking for where people hustle and wear shiny cheap crap.

There is zero gain in implementing this idea. Actually it is a net negative. Knowing theymos, a man of optimization and efficiency, he will nack this hard.

Nack.

[Welsh]

Yeah, I'm personally not a fan of too many emojis. This has probably been heighten by the fact that AI tends to like emojis.

Its not a bad suggestion, I just don't think its appropriate. I'm not sure if I'm completely understanding though, obviously in your example I've merited that topic, mainly because its lead to quite a lot of malware / fake projects being caught on the forum so thought it was worthy of merit for the idea, and participation, but would the user sending the merit choose the emoji from a predefined list or would it be randomly assigned or assigned based on the amount of merits sent?

[_act_]

We are not on social media, those emojis are highly unnecessary at all, the merit system is just enough. Even if possible that the merit can be hidden, it will be better than adding emojis. I mean in a way that you will first click on an icon before seeing people that send merit to a post. I will like that idea than to add something that will not add to posting quality on this form.

[Mia Chloe]

Bad idea.
This is a serious forum for serious investors. Altcointalks is the Chinese brothel you are looking for where people hustle and wear shiny cheap crap.

Yeah if it were altcoins talks by tomorrow morning admin would have made the change already which is very bad. It's simply not needed emojis don't change anything plus if anyone wants emojis so bad they can probably add it to their username though I doubt the forum will allow it during registration.

Yeah, I'm personally not a fan of too many emojis. This has probably been heighten by the fact that AI tends to like emojis.

AI based off its limited intelligence tries to copy how humans write and one way it believes will make its text more organic is by adding more emojis unfortunately it's crap.

[leonair]

This is a serious forum so using any kind of emoji here does not maintain professionalism. Merit is a reward for a user's good quality post so having some kind of emoji with merit would be a kind of fun. I think this system is needed. It is a personal matter for a manager to give merit to a participant for any reason. It has nothing to do with emojis here. So I don't think there is a need for such a system for this forum. Such a system will only make the forum look like social media. But this forum is not any kind of social media.

[SamReomo]

obviously in your example I've merited that topic, mainly because its lead to quite a lot of malware / fake projects being caught on the forum so thought it was worthy of merit for the idea, and participation, but would the user sending the merit choose the emoji from a predefined list or would it be randomly assigned or assigned based on the amount of merits sent?

I think the emoji was selected by OP for demonstration purpose because if we see the thread properly then El Duderino_ and Halab, both sent equal number of merits e.g 50 merits by El Duderino_ and 50 merits by Halab, but if we check the screenshot then both have got different emojis for sending exactly same amount of merits. If I'm not wrong, then OP's idea suggest that the one who sends the merit will choose emoji, or it's set automatically depending on number of merits a member sent to the post/thread.

[alegotardo]

obviously in your example I've merited that topic, mainly because its lead to quite a lot of malware / fake projects being caught on the forum so thought it was worthy of merit for the idea, and participation, but would the user sending the merit choose the emoji from a predefined list or would it be randomly assigned or assigned based on the amount of merits sent?

I think the emoji was selected by OP for demonstration purpose because if we see the thread properly then El Duderino_ and Halab, both sent equal number of merits e.g 50 merits by El Duderino_ and 50 merits by Halab, but if we check the screenshot then both have got different emojis for sending exactly same amount of merits. If I'm not wrong, then OP's idea suggest that the one who sends the merit will choose emoji, or it's set automatically depending on number of merits a member sent to the post/thread.

The intention is the people giving the merit choose the emoji themselves. For example: applause: to encourage a good post, or... checkmark: just to confirm that they read it (without needing to create a reply post).

[NeuroticFish]

So tell me... is the system of merit only being used to "give merit" to posts of people? No, we've moved beyond that.

Tell this to those who still aim to level up 
However, I do understand your point. But imho, if we want something like this, call it FB or not, it would probably be something somehow "parallel" to merit. Something different, maybe allowing everybody to "like" (although it would need something to avoid abuses).
My opinion remains: this makes bitcointalk something like FB and I doubt that theymos would want that. But, yeah, let's see first what's the majority's opinion.

[The Cryptovator]

The merit system hasn't been introduced to facilitate campaign participants or the campaign manager. It's all about the merit of the post; hence, users send merits accordingly. It isn't necessary to react to a post that I read; if I can input something valuable into the discussion, then I will definitely make a reply. Regarding campaigns, it's the manager's and participants' responsibility how they will handle campaigns. You are talking about something like a Facebook reaction, which will look worse. So I don't think it's a valuable suggestion at all.

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

There are two main important reasons why people send merit to another member on this bitcointalk forum, and they are;

1. Merit As Acknowledgement: That is, when a person agrees to a point you shared, then they can send merit in acknowledgement to what you said.

2. Merit  As A Confirmation Of Attention: When you try to call onto someone's attention, they can also send you merit as a sign to signify that they have seen your message, and confirmed they got your attention.

So apart from this two main points, I doubt if there is any other reasons why people send merit to another member on this forum. So implementing the love emoji ❤️, hand emoji ✋ or mark emoji ✅ doesn't make any sense from my point of view. Because by doing so, you are indirectly just turning this forum to another social media. And it doesn't make the merit system looks professional. So in conclusion, I can boldly say that the current merit system looks more better.

[Karl_3000]

if anyone wants emojis so bad they can probably add it to their username though I doubt the forum will allow it during registration.

Emoji or emojis in the username will be worse than what is suggested, despite that what is suggested is also not good.

If you want to register, single emoji or more emojis will make the username be invalid and the person will not be registered until he remove the emoji.

This is the emoji invalidation error that will be displayed:

[vapourminer]

please no

[Faizan Zen]

I don't think so, it looks ugly and is also unnecessary.

It would make more sense if DT could be visible without the need for the BPIB extension

[alegotardo]

Okay, I am convinced it was a bad idea.
Thanks to everyone who gave their opinion.