An idea for a "reaction" feature for managing responses in a thread... based on vectors. I'm thinking of two vectors: one for time and one for logical agreement. And use fuzzy maths. The fuzzy part comes in by having a value somewhere in the range [0,1], with the midpoint 0.5 representing a "neutral" stance. The timewise vector would be how important you rate it to spend time on the tagged toot (we'll say it's done at toot level, but maybe could be threaded or refer to hashtags or whatever). For the sake of convenience, we'll say 0 means "I have absolutely no time for this", 1 meaning "yes, this is something I should find/would have time for." Values in between would lie somewhere between those two, with 0.5 indicating "neutrality" Level of agreement could be another vector, with much the same meaning as above (0 = no agreement and so on). Reactions like this could be private by default, or they could be made public, perhaps selectively so. Of course, people would be free to not use the feature if they don't like it, or if it just isn't useful to them. Anyway, by using two vectors you can code for 16 different basic truth values relating to each tagged item, considering 0, 0.5, 1 and not-present for each of the two vectors. The biggest problem about this might be that it's an attractive source of data for scrapers to do "sentiment analysis" and more nefarious stuff involving feedback loops (cybernetics stuff). That angle would definitely need consideration. Another variation on this theme would be to make the reaction represent a spatial address. This could be related to, say, a mindmap. The spatial address could be efficiently encoded in a single base-7 number to represent a location in a recursively-constructed hexagonal space (see "spiral honeycomb mosaic" for that). An potential of linking a simple number to a position/location on a mindmap could be useful for directing the author of a reply to a place on the map that you've already thought about and would like to suggest as your reply. A way of avoiding too many redundant conversations, perhaps? If anyone's interested, I'd be happy to get feedback on these ideas. Thanks. #FediFeature