Sometimes I appreciate a post but the 
doesn’t feel right and I’d like to 
but that’s not available and I end up doing nothing. Sad.
How about adding some more options? There’s an official Discourse plugin for that:
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I just treat like a , particularly if I agree (eg to some
comment on one of my posts) but have no salient further commentry.
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What if you disagree? That might be where I’d use most. When I want to acknowledge a good argument or effort, but disagree with the goal or significance of the argument and don’t want to endorse it. A feels too strong then.
But no one will ever interpret it that way 
Yes, I’ve been in this situation as well. And I would rather use to
indicate, um, approval instead of a .
OTOH, I’m very -1 on a 
. Too easy to abuse.
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So you’re meta-
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In that I think having a lot of available reactions is a can of worms leading to a rabbit hole to a pit of darkness. In particular I’m against negative reactions. I think the only way to keep a forum welcoming is for disagreement to be explained clearly and, ideally, dispassionately instead of being an opaque button click.
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