None of us are teenagers on here ( well, I'm not anyway) and will just appreciate the likes for what they were intended for, to show an unspoken agreement/ approval of someone's post. Simples🙂
I’m one of those who forsaw possible problems with a Likes button … however Daniel Haynes and the GW team who worked on setting up the new forum said that the likes would not be collated across an individual’s threads so that would remove any possible element of competition, and that has proved to be the case.
Speaking personally, when I’ve seen how many people have ‘Liked’ posts I’ve made reporting my son’s progress as he recovers from his awful accident, I’ve been moved to tears and hugely encouraged by the evidence of so many gardening friends, known and unknown, rooting for him … and I can see no harm in them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just mentioning that emojis were introduced to prevent the misunderstandings happening when you can’t hear the tone of voice in which a post is written. So they are meant to be taken exactly as they appear, not as possibly sarcastic. A smile is a way of making it clear that you meant that comment in a friendly way. If someone was intending to be sarcastic about someone else on a forum, I would expect an eye-roll emoji, for example, not a smile. - @barry island was wondering if they are often used sarcastically.
Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.
Not a smile @Emerion that's one that I would use but hand clapping, grinning, winking, waving these leave me cold but maybe that's just me autism and all that.
That doesn't work. They are codes/symbols. So have the same problem as any other symbol. You have to know what the symbol means to know what the symbol means! The letter A means nothing to someone who can't read. It doesn't mean much to someone who can read and uses a different alphabet.
People then define what symbols means and how they are used. Symbols can and do change meaning or have different meanings within different groups.
Also - be aware that the emojis are coded and it is up to the displaying platform to interpret that code anyway - so can have different appearances on different displaying platforms.
You can only understand the above because me and you, by learning English (a common definition of the symbols and their use) share the same understanding of the word symbols I used. But we all know of the issues where a common language has branches (English - Regional English - American (not actually English) - Australian - South African - Pidgin.......etc).
I use emojis because my 'tone is a problem' apparently. I once told someone her was nice and she called me a sarcastic bi£ch. Charming! No doubt my emojis are being misinterpreted too but there's nothing I can do about that.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
that's one that I would use but hand clapping, grinning, winking, waving these leave me cold but maybe that's just me autism and all that.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border