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I recently had an interaction that, really I should have seen coming. I posted a thing, and Person A complimented me about it, I responded to Person A's comment with "Cat Face" ... and Person A contacted me privately to ask why I responded so negatively to the compliment. Of course it was a misunderstanding. Here's why: When I finally got on the forums, I wasn't sure what the cat face meant .... so I searched the forums for a post explaining what the cat meant. I found this: And that gave me the impression that "cat" is an alternative reaction face that could be good or bad or whatever. And since, cats on social media tend to be about enjoyment, wasting time, cute things, and feeling happy... I just went with it. What I did not consider was that there are only 2 reaction emoji available on the forums. Now that somebody pointed it out to me, I can completely see how the cat face could be negative - since the heart icon is obviously positive and since there's only one other icon, people will naturally assign a negative meaning to it. If the Cat face was truly intended to be a neutral or general response option, we need to disrupt the obvious positive/negative binary. My suggestion is: Please give forum users a "not-positive" emoji of some kind - a thumbs down, or a troll face, or something. I understand that we want to focus on and promote positivity within our community, so I can see this being something that is very carefully considered. Another option is to break the +/- binary by introducing a couple additional "general" or "neutral" options like a sprout, a dog face, a strawberry, etc. Players would make of them what they will, but there would be fewer miscommunications because of the binary implication. . . . . PS - If I have given you a "cat face" reaction, please understand... I'm good with books. I'm good with animals. I am not so good with people. The highest compliment I pay a person is to compare that person to (a) a book, or (b) an animal. Sorry for any miscommunications this might have caused. 💜
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