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I don't "love" or "heart" every post that I want to give some form of thanks or credit. A star or a simple plus symbol would be better, as a heart connotes a positive emotional response to something. Sometimes, the post relays information that makes me mad, but I have to heart it anyway as a show of gratitude toward the poster.




I am totally fine with the hearts. The concept of having to 'like' the unlikeable is certainly not new, I think it is pretty well-established now that when someone posts their beloved pet has passed, the 'likes' are for the person, not the situation.
Personally, I feel taking away the hearts would be closer to taking away the soul of Imzy. I don't know this, I wasn't there, but in my head I can easily picture an early meeting where it was discussed "What should we have? Yellow moons? Green clovers? Purple horseshoes?" and heart was chosen as the Lucky Charm.
I agree completely!
I treat the heart like an 'upvote' more than a 'like', personally. I agree that the heart symbol itself is more emotionally charged than a simple '+1', though.
Plenty of places use a heart to show you like something. It doesn't mean anything beyond that.
I think people are overthinking this.
It can mean you appreciate it or feel for the author, rather than meaning you love it, if that helps
I'm used to a heart being the thing you click on to show you appreciate the post in some way, this is used on twitter and tumblr.
This post is one time I want to heart the post even though I don't necessarily agree, just thanking the author for raising an interesting point, but I think heart will be read as agreeing? Wait, shit, maybe I do agree?
Having spent the last 5 years exclusively on tumblr,fb, ao3, and ff.net, I've never actually used a site that uses general upvotes for liking posts. A +1 just seems so cold and detached to me.
However, it seems that this is just going to be one of those little areas of conflict imzy faces as it tries to bring people from the various social media sites together. That said, in the name of compromising, I second yourlibrarian's suggestion of it being an outline of the imzysaurus!
Yeah, I don't up vote as much as I would if it were a +1 or thumbs up or something neutral. The heart feels way too strong to me.
I'm used to the "heart" system, so this isn't new to me. I don't obsess over it, but clicking it feels like an implied agreement with the content, though often I'm indicating I think a post is important for other reasons. Sometimes clicking it feels flat-out distasteful (to "heart" a story about racism, for example).
I recognize this won't change and I can live with it, but if we're soliciting opinions, I'd prefer something less adorable (like a star or +1).
Or an Imzysaurus outline.
Well now, that would be perfect.
You can always tip if it is the leader of the community
You can tip any non-anon user, not just community leaders :)