Collect emotions people have about various issues and discussions and visualize them

[mitar]

We could explicitly be collecting also emotions people have about various issues and discussions and visualize them. So to make it easier for people to feel what others feel and understand where they are coming from. Maybe even before we get into discussion and comments.

Maybe this could be initially just a form of a comment, where you could have a comment "hurt", or "happy" or something similar.

We could also aggregate those feelings and display how they are changing through time.

We could assign them to points as well.

During meetings, in projector view, this could be a form of a backchannel, that during discussion offline, the projected screen could have hearts and smileys and other symbols floating around as feedback to the people speaking, so that you could get a glimpse of the temperature of the room just by looking at the screen.

This idea of focusing on emotions is used in Taiwan.

[arcalinea]

Even just emoji are great

[mitar]

You mean that it would be easier to add emojis in comments and other content. So to have some emoji autocomplete and so on? So that there are no just :-) ascii support as it is now?

You are probably right that this is a good first step. It could probably be enough to make this simpler.

But one other idea is that you could somehow ask people to summarize their emotions while writing a comments when they are submitting it. Imagine that somebody writes something which made you disappointed. So you can write "What, you really think so?" as text, and select "disappointed" emotion to the whole comment. But maybe you are right, emojis are already a custom way to do that.

[mitar]

I opened #211.