New emoji for quick issue reactions #735

I propose to add the following useful emoji for the quick reaction menu for issues:

🤷 :shrug:

• to indicate a response along the lines "I read the issue, but I can't answer it"
• often issues get stale, because no one knows the answer. It looks like they don't care, but maybe they just don't know
• an additional use in context is to indicate that you don't care

✅ :white_check_mark:

• indicate something was done without the need for a response
• useful when comment contain tiny proposals or side-hints next to the main discussion

What do you think?

Reactions shouldn't always be replacement for comments. I don't receive a notification when a maintainer adds a reaction to my issue, so I will not be aware that a maintainer saw my issue and either is okay with it or has no clue(in which they should ask for a clarification etc.).

It can be broadly interpreted, but that's more a general issue with emoticons.

White check-mark is fine, as I mainly use 👍 for such occasions, but a checkmark could be used instead.

Not a fan of the shrug.

I think the checkmark is a good idea! I often use 👍 as an alternative but 👍 can be confused that you liked/agreed with the message not you solved the message. I don't prefer shrug because you won't be notified that the people read but they didn't know the answer.

My motivation for shrug was not to notify people (a reaction is usually used when you don't want to send a notification), but for people looking at stale issues / comments to know that no one had an opinion.

The use case is specifically if someone does not want to add a comment because they think it's not relevant enough to get everyone informed about it, so an issue goes completely stale (although some users have read it). Instead, they can add a shrug, so looking at it again, you see that people just don't have an opinion.

The use case is specifically if someone does not want to add a comment because they think it's not relevant enough to get everyone informed about it, so an issue goes completely stale (although some users have read it). Instead, they can add a shrug, so looking at it again, you see that people just don't have an opinion.

Might be a good idea but people can abuse it. Maybe also add a guide to use quick reactions in the best way in the documentation?

But people also might don't read documentation.

Just wanted to note here that gitlab (just like matrix) allows adding arbitrary Unicode emojis as reaction to issues/comments. I've always found it quite strange that gihub (and thus I guess gitea) doesn't.

That said except maybe for counting votes they serve more as a fun distraction than a useful communication tool for me.

Upstream: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/22156

This will not implement the specific emojis mentioned in the OP, but would definitely help towards that direction.