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Matt, I need your cell phone number. I have a lot of good ideas. (This is totally normal here.)

I'm all for members using as many sad or happy emojis as they please. 🙏  Whether that's 1 sad face or 50 of them. 
I'd like to point out I'm not trying to control anyones' emotions. 

Appreciate your perspective 🙏 

There’s a bug with the rebuild. I’m working on it and then will rebuild here. 

Ahh another addition of Hump Day! A lot has changed since last week's HD. 🤠
In case you've been living under a very large rock, Invision Community announced/launched our latest feature: Achievements! 
Read our Blog Post about it here.
This also means that this community is officially on our latest update: 4.6. 
This update will be available to you all in the coming weeks!
In the comments of the announcement blog post, @Matt posted some additional visuals for you to digest. I'm going to include them here as well!
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Here's an example of me manually giving a badge and/or points.
 

 
Here's the dialog the moderators can use:

 
One other thing we haven't spoken about is that you can allow your moderators to deduct points from a user when they are warned.

 
I have a feeling you guys have lots of comments / questions / concerns (and props of course) to submit, so please feel free to sound off in the replies below. 
 
Missed the blog post? Ch-ch-check it out:
 

Oh go on, we'll let you post bugs now 😝
The issue is fixed.

We added bug tracker for reporting 4.6 alpha issues on our site here: https://invisioncommunity.com/4bugtrack/

Wassup my IC fam?! 
Not to make this Hump Day topic about me, but, well... happy birthday to meeee 😂 🎂 I'm 33 today (April 7). 
Birthdays are always a great time to reflect on the past year. For ALL of us it's been a year of facing challenges and enduring.
Becoming part of the Invision Community team, and becoming more integrated in this community, was easily one of the highlights of my entire year. Love you guys!! 🙏 
Alright, alright, enough about me (😏), check out a mini-roundup of new 4.6 changes below. The list is dwindling down because we're inching near the finish line!
Oh and you didn't hear it from me, but we'll be formally announcing Achievements in a blog post in the near future 🤫. Be sure to follow me so you get the notification first!
- Fixed an issue where content was missing the proper share logo.
- Fixed an issue where post attachments sometimes used different styles within a list. Attachments in a list will always use a smaller 'inline' style now.
- Improved upgrade error messages. 
- .well-known can now be used as a folder name for Apple Pay verification in Commerce.
- Fixed an issue where it's possible to create two Folders with the same name, causing conflicts.
- Fixed an separate issue with the Easy Mode theme editor where a JS could be thrown due to a race condition.
 

I hear you guys. I can see what you mean about wanting to use a "sad" reaction as a means to show someone you saw their comment, but may not necessarily have the words at the moment to write a reply. I think that's interesting. I'd like to challenge you to explore that: why not write something out every time you feel compelled to use a sad reaction? I imagine it'd make the person you're quoting feel seen and heard far more than a sad reaction. 
I'm not completely opposed to adding the sad reaction back, but I am also having trouble advocating for this change. Communities are designed for members to contribute and convey emotion. Sadness is an emotion (imo) that deserves some extra attention. 
😕

Font Awesome 6 Alpha is here.

I like fast!!

I have been begging for a faster IPS with less JavaScript and less CSS burden and maybe font awesome 6 could also be added to the light speed petition!

I don't miss the confused reaction but I do miss the sad reaction. We are living in a tumultuous time right now with a global pandemic, and more. You don't always have the words to express that you are feeling for that person's difficult time and seeing a bunch of empty "I'm so sorry"'s in a thread I think is just as damning as no one replying at all to someone's rough time. The sad reaction gave people a means to offer support, show that they read the post without replying with an empty platitude that means even less than a supportive reaction.
 

Come, now. We're much more civilized. It should be live streamed. 😂
 
Your point is taken. Sorry.

What if that describes my one's entire community?

For the record: I have minimal emotions.

Appreciate that! Thanks 🙂 
I would like to think that people who are considering using Invision Community software see that we're working towards making our own community more engaging and high vibe. 😸 Think we'll have to agree to disagree that being silly with the kitty reaction or posts with GIFs are childish. Life is short man, just wanting to make people smile and brighten their day even if it's just a little. I don't believe it's inhibiting you or anyone from learning/reading. 🙏 

Thanks everyone for their responses and thoughts either way. 😊

Sorry, posting videos is forbidden in the no-fun zone.

We can't be for everyone, and we accept that. We try and keep things light and fun because life can be pretty awful, and given there's a raging pandemic out there (points to window) these online spaces are an escape from that.

Appreciate the honest dialog.

Thanks for the response and your thoughts... I actually never said anything about negative reactions in terms of actual -1 scoring, I hate negativity as anyone who knows me personally would tell, I battled it in a real world team as a team leader and manager for years. I'm also all for company loyalty but proud not be a 'Company Yesman Jellyfish' for that matter.
Absolutely, me too. I disabled the dislike -1 button on my own community for a few reasons, but mostly because I think deducting reputation points is not worthwhile and it can misfire when it comes to impacting member's reputation in their their profiles. However in my community, you are free to quickly express sadness at someone being ill or having lost their job, or express confusion (we renamed it bewildered for fun solely because I think it's such a great word!). We have members who are not great or are learning with computers, if they don't get something first time they can freely say their confused and ask for clarification. They can you these other reactions and they don't add or subtract a point, they're just neutral, they don't detract from anything. Members are free to add a follow up post, or not, it's completely up to them.
If you only allow one sided opinion to be expressed you're potentially on the path of manipulating your community in my book. How long until the penny drops in the minds of your community, or you start hiding and at the extreme begin deleting posts that don't conform with the management way of thinking. I honestly think, and again it's just my take, you can give people a choice of reactions without introducing negativity, just use positive and neutral reactions and back it up with a fair and reasonable set of community guidelines.
We don't always get it right, but I'd say is that my community is considered by many long term members to be a haven, it's almost 20 years old but it didn't start out that way. We used to allow all reasonable, work friendly and legal topics of conversation but politics and religion (yes, those 2 subjects that have been destroying civilisations for millennia) were an absolute nightmare. People just can't seem to behave themselves and give a respectful opinion. This was long before reactions came along. It was like the toxic vitriol you see every day on social media, that even from the normally respectable of people can leave you feeling dirty after 30 minutes of exposure, and heading for a cleansing hot shower. The best thing we ever did was remove those 2 topics except in the context of that shown in a particular TV series our community was originally about and we explained why. We now have 4 members of staff including myself and we've not moderated anything for maybe 16 years or so, except for the random human spammer or the occasional troll. Reactions came along and my members love them as much as they prefer old fashioned animated emoticons over emoji and giphys.
There is no negativity, it's never hurt my community and people can say if they don't agree with something we're talking about, either by a quick reaction and or a reply. It's about striking a balance where conversation and viewpoints are appreciated, even if people have a different view than your own. 
Lol. Yes don't we all! So it's a yes then, it's confirmation of what I was concerned about; a not so subtle coercion! I knew they were all out to get me.
Seriously though having a sad or confused graphic doesn't mean that people can't express disagreement with a particular corporate stance or comment, or that members in your community here should be prevented from quickly showing empathy in they're a bit are worried about you, because you are struggling with COVID in an off-topic part of the community that's for member to member chat.
 
Thanks Jordan, I appreciate your reply as well. My personal take on that first point is that it reminds me of the old saying, "Statistics, statistics and damn statistics"; incidentally I do like all you can eat stats and analysis myself! There's two ways of looking at your report. Yes, one is that those 2 reactions may be under-utilised compared to Likes and Laughs. The other way to look and interpret it is that it's showing you that you're generally or even more strongly so doing something right, because the reaction to your websites content is mostly positive and often light hearted and good natured. Isn't that what Matt said he prefers? By removing the less used reactions simply for the sake of their usage, you've kind of shot yourself in the foot, because now you're effectively no longer seeing as true, reflective and clear snapshot of your community.
I can understand that, it being a corporate site, but please consider too that not everyone feels comfortable having to justify themselves over every little thing, by and large. Sometimes people simply don't have the time or confidence to do so or plan to come back later. Sometimes a quick sad reaction to some news is enough to show support or solidarity. Sometimes people are new to a community and aren't quite ready to jump in yet. Your stance could equally be, however unintentionally or with the best intentions, interpreted as sending a message; that only the most vocal of people's opinions count, are welcome, are as important, interesting or deemed valid.
 
Yes, as above. I've also found positive and neutral scoring reactions work best.
That's cool but it's about striking a middle ground. It's not about allowing or risking dissent in the ranks.
In the spirit of *maintaining my upbeatness and positivity, thanks for not removing the 😔 😩 or 😡!
 
Hey, this is a feedback forum, where IPS asks for feedback, and so I gave it. To those supportive, thank you, to those reacting to my post by calling me a pussy, cat or whatever the cat emoji actually now means now that April Fools Day has gone, that's fine, you 😻!
Again, I never said anything about restoring negative reactions. You're so wrong about why I created this feedback topic, in a feedback forum, that's always been for feedback, like from customers. Of all the cheek, right? I should be flogged. Publicly, in the village square and my IPS licences torn up in front of my face, friends and family. But wait, you're being negative, we don't do that hear, I'll report you good!
Moving on...
 

* Me, maintaining my positivity and upbeatness!
 

Still positive, don't worry I got this!
 
Here's some of the books I personally use to achieve my positive zen, without falling down a negative shame spiral...
Available from all good bookstores near you... or Amazon, they're positive folks...

 
Sent this to a few people at Christmas, highly recommended...

 
Next, a personal favourite...


But really I owe it all to...


 

I love that song. 🙂  
You have a fair point. I guess my stance is I think everything is working just fine, and we need to continue to let things fold out with the new changes. When I joined here, people were arguing about how disappointed they were with the engagement. That's changing. Let's let the process unfold and see where it takes us before we nit-pick everything. Who knows, you may like it, but you'll never know until you give things a chance.

Speaking of ironic:
One would hope that everyone can be free to express an opinion here, even if it seems to be on the "ironic" side to some of us.  As with many comments posted here, I personally disagree with some points made and agree with others, rarely do I weigh in completely one way or the other. As a consequence I rarely use reactions.
If everyone consistently keeps their concerns to themselves "nothing" will change and there will be no chance of any knowledge transfer.
What appears to be a waste of time to some may not be to others. Jordan's approach to community management may serve him well on his board but might not work 100% of the time here.  The original poster was pointing out that in his opinion Jordan's approach might benefit from a little tweaking. If Jordan is to improve this community hearing contrary views will help him figure out how best to manage this community to be in service to "all".
 

Gotta say that one made me chuckle 🤣
Good idea removing the negative reactions, agree they generally spark negative responses/replies.  Also a good point by @Jordan identifying the general positive sentiment garnered from a positive reaction versus provoking users to provide more of a textual response explaining their discontent (rather than leaving it to fester in the brain of the OP they reacted to).