Regarding those unhappy and angry reactions, I’ve always been under the impression that they would mostly be used in support of the post.
That was certainly why it was my default inclination to leave them where they are!
On reflection, the ability to see who all the reactions are from addresses the issue I mentioned, so "as is" works well thanks.
I've always thought that accountability was one of the keys to community, that if you knew that people could see who you are, you'd naturally moderate yourself a bit. Be a little calmer. Most people want to be liked at least a little, right?
My previous forum gig was in the tech world, where tempers tend to run just below boiling on a
good day, of which there are precious few. This was especially true in a support forum like ours, where people were most likely to show up on their worst days. So we instituted a real names-only policy. It worked for a while, since these highly visible people were hating that their online tantrums were as visible as their artistic pinnacles when prospective employers looked them up. They
decided to have fewer tantrums, no matter how bad their days got.
Then along came Facebook, where people can make their entire online identity a tantrum, with making other people have bad days as the goal.
Oh well. Still, outside Facebook, accountability works.
So, as always, I'm happy to follow the lead of you good people. We'll leave things as they are, and reconsider only if the reactions are misused or abused down the road.
Good cheer and all that to you all,
Tiny Tim
(I was making a reference to Dickens' A Christmas Carol with that "Tiny Tim", but it suddenly put me in mind of this photo of THE Tiny Tim in sequins for a local LA TV institution,
Hollywood Palace, looking very festive indeed!)
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