What's the Deal with Negative Reaction Scores?

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The discussion revolves around the confusion surrounding negative reaction scores on the forum. Participants clarify that while there is a negative reaction feature, it is not represented by a specific emoji, as the "Sad" and "Skeptical" emojis do not lower a user's reaction score. Instead, reactions like "Like," "Love," and others increase the score, while "Sad" and "Skeptical" maintain it. There is also mention of a potential glitch related to post visibility and formatting, which may have contributed to the misunderstanding. Overall, the conversation highlights the nuances of the forum's reaction system and user scores.
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I see, there are some new features too, right?o_O
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I’ve never seen a negative reaction score before.
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I thought they were only additive.
 
Tom.G said:
I am seeing some new posts with missing content, seems to be images or video.

Most recent is https://www.physicsforums.com/posts/7057407, where the initial text shows but the rest of the rather large message frame is blank.

Hope this isn't a case of "Advance To The Rear."
This is a Twitter embed. I think a problem with your old browser.
Rive said:
I see, there are some new features too, right?o_O
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Nope post and reaction score have been there for many years :biggrin:
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
Nope post and reaction score have been there for many years :biggrin:
... With negative score? :smile:
 
Rive said:
... With negative score? :smile:
Yup, there is a single emoji that is a negative
 
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I did not know that, realy ... :smile:
 
Rive said:
I did not know that, realy ... :smile:
Where is it? The seven reactions I get are: Thumbs up, Hearts for eyes, holding heart, laughing head, Amazed head, sad head and holds chin head.

Like, love, care, funny , wow , sad and skeptical.

No negative thumb up.
 
pinball1970 said:
Where is it? The seven reactions I get are: Thumbs up, Hearts for eyes, holding heart, laughing head, Amazed head, sad head and holds chin head.

Like, love, care, funny , wow , sad and skeptical.

No negative thumb up.
I didn't say there was a negative thumb up :wink:
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
I didn't say there was a negative thumb up :wink:
Should be easy to find out :wink:
 
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Hill said:
Should be easy to find out :wink:
Just trying something.
 
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Hill said:
Should be easy to find out :wink:
Yep, well 9 years on the site I never knew that.
 
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pinball1970 said:
Just trying something.
Did it do it?
 
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pinball1970 said:
Yep, well 9 years on the site I never knew that.
I guess, it did.
 
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Hill said:
Did it do it?
I upvoted you for your trouble
 
  • #15
Where did you see this? Is it a screenshot while using your phone? The format does not match what I see when using my laptop browser...
 
  • #16
The topic of this thread from the forum front page is "negative reaction score" but the title of this thread seems to be "Small PF Update this Weekend".

How odd.
 
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Vanadium 50 said:
The topic of this thread from the forum front page is "negative reaction score" but the title of this thread seems to be "Small PF Update this Weekend".

How odd.
It will be fixed in update?
 
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Vanadium 50 said:
The topic of this thread from the forum front page is "negative reaction score" but the title of this thread seems to be "Small PF Update this Weekend".

How odd.
I merged two threads, actually, I should just spun the posts off, one sec
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
what will be fixed?
Your update, I thought it was one of those little glitches you mentioned.
 
  • #21
No it's not a glitch, we've had a negative reaction for 10 years
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
No it's not a glitch, we've had a negative reaction for 10 years
No I meant the thing Vanadium50 mentioned about the Title being different to the thread.
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
This is a Twitter embed. I think a problem with your old browser.
Entirely possible...
Going directly to Twitter gets a "...browser no longer supported." message.

And the link in https://www.physicsforums.com/posts/7057724 to
shows no response at all.

Oh well.
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
No it's not a glitch, we've had a negative reaction for 10 years
Where is it? I guess im missing what were talking about.

Hovering over "Like" in your post 23, I see this

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gmax137 said:
Where is it?

It is the Sad emoji.
I tested it on Greg's account by giving a Skeptical emoji, checking number of Likes, then trying the Sad emoji and checking Likes again.
 
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Tom.G said:
It is the Sad emoji.
I tested it on Greg's account by giving a Skeptical emoji, checking number of Likes, then trying the Sad emoji and checking Likes again.
Huh? I thought it was the skeptical?
 
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Tom.G said:
It is the Sad emoji.
That's kind of a surprise. I tend to use 'Sad' as 'yeah, that's really sad' about the content reported in the other comment: in that rare case when the other content is just not right it's the 'Skeptical'...

But this way now it feels like beating the messenger, and I did it some times already :doh:
Sorry, my bad o:)
 
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Rive said:
That's kind of a surprise. I tend to use 'Sad' as 'yeah, that's really sad' about the content reported in the other comment: in that rare case when the other content is just not right it's the 'Skeptical'...

But this way now it feels like beating the messenger, and I did it some times already :doh:
Sorry, my bad o:)
Me too!
 
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If I press like and reload the page, the score changes.
If if press sad or skeptical and reload the page, the score remains the same. Is there a time lag?
 

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