Emotional framing of comments
I agree, they do add some colour to the discussion, I was proposing something similar, but more about the factual nature of the discussion than the emotional state of the person over at https://www.loomio.org/discussions/10073
I think that supporting emoji within the comment could be more expressive and easier.
Maybe this is more of a plugin thing. I have just been feeling like we need to increase Loomio's lovability — make Loomio a medium that helps people love each other. Like Facebook.
@johngraham did you delete a comment?
@matthewbartlett Yes I did it again, sorry - still overcoming social-media-anxiety syndrome.
I asked you:
"Can you walk me through your thinking on how 'increasing Loomio's lovability' will 'help people love each other'"?.
Then I second-guessed myself on the helpfulness of that question, hence the 'delete'.
It's okay! I don't know if my comment was helpful either! It is an inchoate soup of thoughts I've got. People can love each other through Loomio by listening, praising, sharing insights, critiquing, building shared understanding & a sense of group identity. I think we could make Loomio a little lovelier by letting making it easy for people to signal the emotion that goes with a comment.
I agree that emoji sounds like an easy starting point.
"IDEA" what if you could signal an emotion in response to a comment? As, in, where the 'Like' button is, not just at the end of the thread.
I think this would hugely help "build shared understanding and a sense of group identity", as you said, @matthewbartlett
I thought of this because I still have problems online that I don't have (as much anymore) in 'real-life' - a very hit-and-miss sense of humour, sarcasm, and knowing how to pitch things in a way that won't leave me wondering why I'm talking to an empty room. - in short, it's harder to get into rapport.
Another advantage of having something more nuanced than "Liked" or not is, it would help those of us needing a nudge from a "popularity" mindset to a "feedback" mindset when it comes to social media.
Abe went: :D
Beth went : :/
Gabe went : 'Huh?"
Dell went "Hmmmph" and turned away in contempt.
for someone like me who didn't even realise the code for smiles and hearts, just thought the person had slipped on the keyboard, emoticons are a great idea!
yes please to emoticons!
I reckon we might see them emoticons sneak in over the next couple of weeks...
The DialogueCircles, which was the online platform of the Canadian firm Ascentum (which no longer exists), had emoticons. In the 3 online deliberations that I facilitated using it with about 60 members of the public, the emoticons were hardly used. I'm not sure why but the dialogue was so riveting so perhaps participants were focused on the stories. Having emoticons didn't caused any problems.
I just spotted these emotion decorators for avatars on a site called getsatisfaction.com. I love them. I think they could really enrich and humanise discussions on Loomio.