Dan Romero on Warpcast

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How would you feel if Warpcast replaced likes (the heart icon) with reddit / HN style upvote and added a downvote on every cast? 1 - strongly against this, would stop using the app 10 - hell yes, would greatly improve the experience

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Dean Pierce 👨‍💻🌎🌍

@deanpierce.eth

20, it's a good start, but doesn't go far enough. Ideally you'd be able to label content with any emoji you want, or at least a large set of standard emoji. Things like funny, shitty, brilliant, deceptive, etc. Similar to how Slack/Discord do it. Then people can use their own client-side scoring to determine value.

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hellno the optimist

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Slack-style emoji reactions would be way more interesting. Bonus points if I can react with an NFT I own.

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ted (not lasso)

probably 1. I like the current culture in which someone comments if they disagree or agree strongly, like if they agree, and ignore it if they feel neutral. Warpcast algo is much better than reddits already

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Cameron Armstrong

2.5 - I understand the intent, but think there’s a large risk of external and internal brigading since the core community is still so small right now. Anecdotally, there’s a specific energy that comes from downvoters and it seems like it’s rarely for anti-spam purposes

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1 if anyone can downvote. People react asymmetrically to positive vs negative feedback. One bad experience getting a bunch of downvotes and that person will be unlikely to post again.

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invent something that is native to your medium — I like @jacob's idea about NFT responses, especially if it encourages designing NFTs that work at 16px size. Maybe you can react with another kind of microtransaction?

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Nicholas Charriere

I don’t think upvote / downvote works with public people. You get personal attacks and gamified mob downvoting for personal reasons. Need anon or quasi anon like Reddit

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prefer Warpcast having its own identity e.g. how would the GM reactions work with something like this? Agree with jacob on adding slack type emojis instead of copying reddit

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5? i don't think i'd stop using the app because of this, but it would be a behavior change i'd have to get used to i think of warpcast as "if subreddits had twitter's format" might need a different client that mimicked reddit's UI/UX more for me to get used to upvote/downvote

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2. Wouldn’t stop using the app but “downvote” “upvote” and those arrow icons have bad, HN/reddit neckbeard vibes Keep it simple

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2. Even with my Reddit background, would rather leave the downvote in the past. Appreciate the diversity of opinions the “like only” approach provides.

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2-3 IMO upvote-downvote mechanic leads to more groupthink and dogpiling on contrary opinions Downvotes create a negative feedback loop, prime people to pre-dislike the comment, and feel righteous indignation to dunk Can happen with "like" mechanic but less pronounced, more likely to just see lack of engagement

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Nounish Prof ⌐◧-◧🎩

2- Strongly against — especially if the gm/gn/⌐◨-◨ disappears. Don’t see the need for a change.

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2-3, generally not as active participating in communities that have downvote features (usually end up lurking instead)

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2. this might be something another client can do effectively. perhaps a reddit-like client that focuses on channels. i want warpcast to have the same flow as twitter has, its proven to be an intuitive one.

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I’d likely not use the up/down vote like use likes. Maybe parent cast be simple like and all replies are up/down votes?

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Venkatesh Rao ☀️

3 I'd say stick with the heart or go whole hog allowing arbitrary emoji reactions... anything in-between smacks of half-assed market regulation

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