What's the Deal with Negative Reaction Scores?

[Greg Bernhardt]

Revisiting the beginning of the thread, how did someone get a negative score?

Don't know, can you link me to this post?

 

[Frabjous]

Don't know, can you link me to this post?

I wasn’t really tracking the user. @Rive and I noticed to the same newbie post, so it was either Thursday night or Friday morning.

 

[Rive]

Right, I was wrong, there is no negative emoji.

Happy to hear that!
Although some posts 'makes so' I would prefer not seeing such thing here

Don't know, can you link me to this post?

Can't recall the user name. Was removed from the end of the can-any-country-achieve-net-zero-without-nuclear topic.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I see it, the posts were removed, and it shows 0 now for the user score.

 

[Rive]

Weird. I'll keep my eye open for recurrence, then.

 

[gmax137]

I feel like we've had this discussion before - the idea that sad means "oh that's a sad story" not "it's just sad that you are so wrong."

 

[Wrichik Basu]

In the original XF software, skeptical is actually a downvote emoji. But here in PF, that was changed to skeptical and the value was set to neutral.

 

[dextercioby]

So there is no way to lower the "reaction score" (which is basically a subjective user-impact score), but only to keep it constant by constantly (!) hitting "sad" and "skeptical" on some user's posts. Correct?

 

[DaveC426913]

Wait. Are you guys saying that reactions affect user scores?
When I use the skeptical emoji, I ding someone for a point?
(Also, what do user scores do?)

 

[Wrichik Basu]

So there is no way to lower the "reaction score" (which is basically a subjective user-impact score), but only to keep it constant by constantly (!) hitting "sad" and "skeptical" on some user's posts. Correct?

That's correct. Basically, reacting with "sad" or "skeptical" has no effect on the reaction score.

Wait. Are you guys saying that reactions affect user scores?

Yes. If I am correct, "Like", "Love", "Informative", "Care" and "Haha" increase the reaction score by 1. "Sad" and "Skeptical" have no effect.

When I use the skeptical emoji, I ding someone for a point?

No, see above.

(Also, what do user scores do?)

You can get Trophies based on your reaction score. (See here, scroll down a bit.)