Well, I’ve clapped this article, a first clap. I think the idea of a dial or something like that is far better, but that is may appear to dominate the screen or screen activity?
However, clapping gives no feed back in this contact, for instance, how long should I clap? Where as with real clapping there is considerable feedback and other situational considerations: how long others clap, their enthusiasm, how the clapping is augmented with stamping or whistling, etc. How tired the artists may be, not to mention at what point in a show, reading or other performance. At the end of a show, between acts, when the curtain descends, at the end of an act, at the beginning of an act, before a reading, during a reading, after a bon mot. There are many possibilities and many conventions.
What are the possibilities and conventions in this context? In the real context, after a certain point clapping has little to do with promoting an artist, it is to do with appreciation and encouragement. How does this work here?