I just want clapping to have more value. The hearts were binary — you liked something or you didn’t. The hearts are more nebulous and arbitrary. I like the idea of liking something more than once, but it needs to be tied to a value. Users don’t have a daily or total allotment of claps, for instance. You can applaud anything as many as 50 times, but there’s nothing deterring you from max clapping everything, which deflates the value. Or worse, it now feels backhanded when somebody gives you a clap, knowing there’s nothing stopping them from giving you more.
I would like to see a daily limit on claps or something. You know, casual readers get 200 a day, or something. Active community members unlock a greater daily allowance, maybe. Subscribers, more still. Something that limits the amount of clapping somebody can give, in an effort to create a valuation of a clap as a unit or a currency.
Maybe I’m thinking too much about it. Maybe I’m sad that my old hearts just got converted into individual claps.