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I like the idea - I don't want to send you an email back, here's a thumbs up to show I've received it.

I hate the execution because I get an email telling me you reacted to my email.

i like reactions, for the most part. its nice to do an acknowledgement without having to write out a whole reply so the other person knows i received it.

same reason there is a poop emoji in a "professional" messaging app… MS is idiotic and out of ideas

I’m confused as to why it wasn’t scheduled? Were you the one who was scheduling it, or were you reaction-replying to an invite, anticipating that the reaction emoji would accept the invitation and put the meeting on your calendar?

I need a shirt that says "dipshit has reacted 👍"

I have a coworker that responds to everything with emojis. Teams messages. Emails. Everything. Even if it’s not relevant to him or directed at him. He always does it. I want to hit him with a chair.

I will say, it's practical for everyone using the same system. Sometimes it's nice to acknowledge an email without having to respond to it

And when I had my school account, they'd send out phishing alerts of what to look out for. Those emails would be spammed with crying laughing emojis

I disabled it as soon as they were launched. I also disabled the quick reply, reactions, and to text messages etc.

Don't forget to add a string to your wifi ssid so Microsoft doesn't index it.

And if you don't want Google to index it you need to use a different string, and it must be placed at the end.

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If you make a 'feature' opt-in, 3 people will use it, so the person who added it would have to work much harder to justify their paycheck. If you make everyone use your 'feature' by default, you can say 'look how many people use the feature I added,' while actually pointing at the number of people who didn't turn off the feature according to the ~~spyware~~ metrics.

Or, you know, just block domains that use Microsoft email

I'm guessing you probably don't realize how many organizations host their email with Microsoft.

Surprise, you get the spam even if you use Outlook.

i agree reactions can be useful, but adding them to email the way Microsoft has is obnoxious for recipients using any client other than theirs. and, i think this is probably their intention: receiving an email reaction in a client that doesn't render it as a reaction feels wrong and MS probably hopes this will encourage some people to switch to using Outlook.

the right way to add reactions to email would be to make it opt-in (and also not a vendor-specific header but instead something which aims to become a standard): clients should only allow reactions to messages which contain a header signaling that the sender supports receiving them.

but email is used specifically for receipts, otherwise messaging would be used

I realize that this is up to the user and that choice is great, so the issue comes down to implementation. and as a user... I find out far after the fact that somebody reacted to my email because outlook doesn't show me those notifications in a timely manner, nor am I going to look for them because I consider that a chat feature and Microsoft already sends me enough notification spam

According to their history, this is the extend part.

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