Because some posts are so wildly outrageous that all you can do is laugh. And adding such a button next to the heart might be a good idea. Thoughts?
I like it but sensitive people won’t.
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Might be a good incentive to implementing it.
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Facebook and Yelp have it currently, I think it could be fun
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The argument against this will be the same reason there isn’t a dislike button, basically don’t want to make the community have a feature that could easily create adversarial situations. I still think it’s a good idea, but I’m sure that will be the argument against.
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I’m all for dislike and laugh button.
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Give us a 
button
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Personally in favor, but likely not good for community growth or engagement
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It might be my commitment issues but the heart icon always bothered me. We don’t know each other well enough to “love” their posts so shouldn’t it just be a “like” icon? A simple thumbs up rather than a romantic gesture? Just sayin’. 
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Even though I 
your post, I want you to know that I didn’t love it but I did like it.
See… that’s what I’m talkin’ 'bout.
We are all acquaintances… maybe friends… but rarely lovers.
We will consider it. Personally I like simplicity. To me, heart/thumbs-up/laugh provide for a similar positive feedback. Having a list of reaction buttons like LinkedIn/Facebook over-complicate things in my opinion. You would need to think about which reaction button to use and would need to click through each reaction icon to see who exactly laughed/liked/thumbed-up a post.
With regards to a dislike button – what would we be disliking? A bad deal? A politically charged comment? Would having a dislike button prevent users from piling on (likely not because technically people can just like a previous post that said the same thing)? I am trying to sketch out the scenarios in which the dislike button would be used and assess its impact.
I just want a Like instead of Love… not going to be put a ring on it.