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by mceachen
2541 days ago
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> can't help but improve mental state Unless you regard it as inane. Throwing reaction gifs at a happy birthday/congratulation post is one thing. Throwing them into the oncall production ops channel and context switch everyone so they can see Homer back into a hedge is another. |
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This is part of the reason I like the "reactji" of slack / discord / etc. They don't cause a new message notification.
Because of that, they're less interruptive, and you can do some interesting, useful things. Like lightweight interaction - we "seed" an up/down arrow pair for voting, people just click one. Or controlling bots more easily - we use one to add Qs to a queue, others to shut them up when they're being noisy, or there's fancier options: https://codeascraft.com/2018/10/10/etsys-experiment-with-imm...