💙 Blue heart as like symbol on the forum?

[JeroenH]

Wait till poll is over in 6 days.

[TobiasF]

Let’s implement a “heart color” option in the personal user settings.

[paulakreuzer]

@AnotherElk

Hmmm … couldn’t it be made configurable in the Interface section of the Profile preferences?
If the settings there are fixed or not easily customizable, there could be theme variants (“Fairphone Original”/“Fairphone Original Red Heart” and “Fairphone-New-2017”/“Fairphone-New-2017-Red-Heart”)

@TobiasF

Let’s implement a “heart color” option in the personal user settings.

This would of course be optimal.

@anon83519835 if you can do that then I guess we don’t even have to wait for the poll results. Default should probably be standard red.

[Roboe]

Is a personal setting really necessary? Gosh, it’s just a silly colour, so much drama for that. IMO it doesn’t worth the “make a Discourse plugin”, “maintain it between Discourse updates” and “keep a new register in the database for each user preference” efforts. But that’s @anon83519835’s decission, I guess.

I just see that as an arrogant solution* (“I don’t want anyone to take a decission so let’s involve other people’s work to non-fix this with absurd technology I won’t take part in”). While Fairphone invest in going deep in how the production chain for fair gold in Uganda works, it really sounds like a totally Fairphone-antagonic solution to me.

Do whatever you want, I really don’t care about the stupid colour. But I care about this community. If a “like” colour has the power to break us in two parts, we are no longer a community but just a network of individuals. Think about that.

*= I shouldn’t need to clarify this, but anyway. An arrogant solution doesn’t imply the people that come up with that solution is arrogant at all.

[Stefan]

@paulakreuzer

This whole thing reminds me of another well-intended idea by Stefan: The “Refugees Welcome”-account title. It’s okay not to like an idea, but there are limits to how harsh you should voice your disapproval. Stefan ended up closing and hiding the topic, because of a handful of very loud voices.
Sure that was an optional and voluntary change to your personal profile, while this is/would be a change that every forum member will encounter.

@BertG

Still, as I just now learned about the “Refugees Welcomee” case, that seems to have had some parallels:

Please don’t judge things that you don’t know anything about.

@BertG

If it’s just design, fashion or individual liking and there are less than 20 people even interested enough to join the discussion, don’t do it.

I like the idea of a “relevance hurdle” that is binding for changes to the forum. I’m wondering, would it make Rearranging Categories (again) obsolete? “Only” 13 people have posted there.

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In general I’d just like to mention that it’s always easier to complain afterwards than to come up with good ideas before an action fails.

PS: I’m very happy with the browser extension @Roboe made and if I’d known that it’s “so easy” I’d maybe never started this topic in the first place…

[BertG]

@Roboe

Do whatever you want, I really don’t care about the stupid colour. But I care about this community . If a “like” colour has the power to break us in two parts, we are no longer a community but just a network of individuals. Think about that.

I thought about it.
In my opinion it’s not the question wether a blue or a red heart are to be preferred, that is “dividing” the community in this thread, but rather the way of communicating/acting with regard to that “color”-topic.
As I perceive it, it was the feeling “Why do you ask my opinion, if you just do as you like before a decision has been reached?”
And please … the “you” is an impersonal one and not directed at any individual community member.

And doesn’t the way we communicate make it a community?
If someone is complaining about something I did or said, I often have to grant, that I used the wrong expression or said something that could be misunderstood or did not take someone elses interests into consideration.

As you can see from the following example:

@Stefan

Please don’t judge things that you don’t know anything about.

I had no intention to judge anything. I just meant to reference a remark by Paula to explain, why I made the statement that followed.
And I am sorry, that you got another impression.

[urs_lesse]

The poll has closed, can we switch back to the default setting (red heart)?

[paulakreuzer]

@anon83519835 the people has spoken. it is.
(or is it already switched back? I still have the plugin active, so I won’t see the difference)

[AlbertJP]

I have just liked your message to check, and no, it’s still blue.

[anon83519835]

this is fixed now…

[Roboe]

@Roboe

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Just a note: my plugin is still available. Just PM me if something breaks.

[vaubee]

i think blue’d be quite nice, indeed … a bit weird discussion, though.