Leaving a reaction emoji automatically causes an upvote to be given to the post, even if I’ve already downvoted the post.

I don’t know if this behaviour is intentional or a side-effect of the reaction not being a first-class supported feature of lemmy, but could this be fixed? It means sometimes I have upvoted posts that are objectionable simply because I left a reaction emoji on them.

Thanks!

  • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Emoji reactions absolutely should not automatically register as an up vote, as many of them are negative. There either needs to be an option to choose up/down with the emoji, or a way to attach an emoji to a vote so it’s clear what’s happening.

    I now need to go and remove reactions from certain posts that I definitely didn’t intend to up vote.