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 
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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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Necroing this, but what about if we enabled the plugin but only enabled the non-negative reactions, or even just and ? Alternatively, if we just want , we could at least in theory replace the with the in the UI with some CSS hacks.
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I first want to concur that adding is a very bad idea, for all the reasons others have said.
I’m still -0 on adding , because
according to this, a can be used as a soft disapproval. It comes off to me as being passive aggressive.
Also, adding may ruin . Right now I don’t see anything wrong with it: github has 
, some other platforms have , and we have . It’s just a generic positive reaction, it doesn’t mean any more than that. But if we have both and , the latter will take on a new meaning as a strong positive reaction. This may lead to some uncomfortable situations.
These are just my speculations (that’s why I’m only -0 against it), and maybe I’m just overthinking it, but I don’t even want to open these possibilities.
I would be +0 on replacing with .
That wouldn’t be new. It already is strong. That’s why I asked for this in the first place - because I’d like something not so strong. A heart is not “just a generic positive reaction”. It’s a symbol for love, thus coming across as “I’m loving this”.
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Your interpretation is not universally agreed upon, though. I don’t think most people are interpreting the on their post as “wow, they LOVE it!”
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