I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this, but now you can hover over the heart icon to get more reactions. Maybe these are customizable?
Turns out these are also counted separately from the normal 
icons!
The options are: 
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Just too late to have a reaction instead of a whole message for when someone got the right answer in the emoji thread…
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I don’t like that posts just with hearts show the hearts on the right, while those with other reactions show on the left.
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I don’t like that hearts on the right are pink and hearts on the left are red.
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I don’t like that there are both emoji reaction hearts and built-in hearts!
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Red hearts are considered the same as normal reaction hearts (you can red heart a message and it’ll act like it was pink). Blue hearts are different, though.
I don’t like Vegemite, especially as an ice cream flavoring.
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What the hell does a blue heart mean?
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Some people prefer blue (or other colored) hearts as an alternative to the red heart = romantic connotation. Maybe that’s why?
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I use a to avoid unwanted advances from forum goers. 
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We specifically didn’t want to add a 
reaction or the like, so all of these are generally meant to be positive. But that also means they’re ten different shades of positive with a decent amount of overlap.
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Oh, so they are custom-set. I was noticing a lot of overlap with Discord reactions and was wondering whether that was a coincidence…guess not!
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@HAL9000 What the hell does a blue heart mean?
@Hidnook Some people prefer blue (or other colored) hearts as an alternative to the
red heart = romanticconnotation. Maybe that’s why?
I could only think of deoxygenated blood.
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It can mean anything you want. I specifically use it when I want to express support but not necessarily “like” - say if someone is in the hospital it doesn’t convey “I like that you were in a car accident!”
Oh, don’t worry!
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I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.
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So I selected emoji that I thought would be useful. I’m open to suggestions with the understanding we aren’t interested in thumbs-down or dislikes. All emoji still count as a like.
And we probably don’t need a smorgasbord of 30 emoji. I have certain ones I’m partial to but I’d like to hear what people think.
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My suggestion is based on the usage of the pink heart in DM’s as “I have read your message” and that sometimes my contribuition on some debate is a mere “concur and agree with…”
The latter can be covered with the OK sign or the thumbs up, but the thumb up is perhaps more appropriate as acknowledge, ack for ascii friends , of a PM. So my suggestion is replacing the blue heart with the OK sign (the (surprise) smiley I think convey also “OMG !” which I think is the usual reaction when someone ends in hospital..) as for Hanon’s personal usage of blue heart.
but I came from a country renowned for its non-verbal language, so I reckon that there’s a big YMMV perspective…
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
I noticed that only the three highest scoring emojis are shown on the left. If you want to see them all, you have to click on the total. That’s a bit weird, compared to what I’m used to on places like Discord.
Most of these seem ok to me, though I don’t see a raised eyebrow as particularly positive. Without a thumbs-down reaction, I wonder if it would end up functioning as a substitute thumbs-down.
Not on this forum, but elsewhere, I’ve sometimes seen laughing emoji used as a scornful reaction to seriously-meant posts. I find this obnoxious and not conducive to good-faith discussion.
The shocked/open-mouth one also seems like it could be negative, depending how it’s used.
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