Amer Mallah
Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read

I think the approach (a basic +1, or choose an emoji[s]) used by Facebook or Discord addresses this problem more effectively. Choosing a number of claps is an arbitrary scale, that is not consistent among the audience, let alone consistent across the same person on two different days. If someone holds down the button and does 100 claps versus my 1, who liked the article more? Did the other person like it 100x more? There is no usable information an author can really extract from this beyond “did they press it once, or more than once” — which is the exact same thing that the like or emoji system does.

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