I find myself using them on pretty much every platform that has them: matrix, masto, discord, etc.
These would be completely separate from votes, and have no affect on sorting.
What do you think the positives and negatives would be of having them?
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GitHub also adopted it, and I would say it depends on the platform and target.
For a developer platform I find this unprofessional, but for traditional chat systems it might be useful if you quickly want to go through lots of messages and get a first impression about what the community thinks about topic X.
On Lemmy I would prefer emojis to up and down votes, the reason is that people often do not bother to explain why they up or down voted it.
I would argue, overall, that adding it puts maybe a bit more pressure on the server for no actual benefit.
I overall would like such a feature here on Lemmy but only if there are limits how you can use them, I speculate some people would constantly add and then remove them with might cause some more traffic and pressure on the server, so there should be a limit. Unregistered people should not be allowed to add reaction or use them, only one reaction per post or within x hours.. and such limitations.
I know I'm off-topic, but why is it so? I find them rather neat, as they allow for quick and concise responses (yes, no, agree, disagree, interesting, curious, yay, gj, etc).
Emojis are not universal and can be misinterpreted.
Some emojis are pretty much universal, while others clearly aren't. The ones in GitHub's selection are pretty normal, with exception of the thumbs-up/down I suppose (reading from that article). It's really a matter of context. In most cases, the use of emoji reactions is fine and brings benefits.
If someone isn't okay with them, I think they should politely ask their colleagues to stop using them, which is, in my opinion, a better compromise than just not having reactions altogether.