How do you decide whether to mark a forum response insightful, agree, or awesome?

corpseblade

On a lighter note, the above title asks what I would like to know. Obviously, I will go first.

Insightful: makes a point I hadn't considered even though I may disagree.

Agree: completely or substantially hits points with which I can agree.

Awesome: makes me laugh out loud and/or delights me with its cleverness.

Runefang

Insightful: Generally if you say something stupid that reveals your bias or ineptitude
Agree: As per the label
Awesome: Funny

Hämähäkki

Awsome is as awsome does

Beardimus

Insightful - i learnt something
Agree - agree
Awesome - funny

corpseblade

So Runefang, you use insightful sarcastically?

Interesting. I never considered doing that. But I am lousy at sarcasm. I am often too literal.

bmnoble

Insightful: Answer to OP is good enough that I see no reason to post, in the thread/well explained/I even learnt something from it.

Agree: Agree with at-least some of what is written/or what I view their trying to say.

Awesome: Somewhat entertaining or praiseworthy.

Runefang

corpseblade wrote: »

So Runefang, you use insightful sarcastically?

Interesting. I never considered doing that. But I am lousy at sarcasm. I am often too literal.

Yes. I know I'm not the only one who does this.

BomblePants

I agree with @corpseblade.... that’s kinda how I vote... plus I usually give an awesome to pics of people’s characters because we all feel proud of our characters....

Kalgert

Insightful: Where I have learned something interesting that I haven't thought about before.
Agree: Something that I find myself agreeing with enough that it warrants a vote.
Awesome: Something that I find very amusing or entertaining.

I don't vote that often, so things really have to be impressive, or interesting, or something that I can really strongly agree on.

aaisoaho

Agree: if I agree with a post completely, I'll use agree.

Insightful: if I learn something and/or the post is very detailed and well-reasoned - giving me a whole new perspective or broaden my perspective on the matter, it'll earn an insightful from me.

Awesome: if the post seems to have required a lot of work to write or the post is surprisingly funny or showcases something amazing (like a cool costume/outfit, a beautiful house decoration etc.), it'll earn an awesome from me.

In an overlapping scenario where post fits multiple reasonings above, I'll react with insightful - or if I do not think it earns insightful, but the post is between the agree and awesome, I'll give awesome.

Aliyavana

Ask for them. Id like insightfuls, no awesomes please.

MW2K

Whim, tickling fancy, randomness, the thrill of it all...

Danikat

Since everyone seems to have their own definitions and it's impossible to keep track of them (especially since there's no way of knowing who tagged a post) I take them all at face value.

• Insightful: this post adds useful or relevant info to the discussion.
• Agree: Someone agrees with what this post says.
• Awesome: It's amusing or entertaining - a show of support for when agree doesn't really fit.

Grianasteri

If someone has said something which I tend to agree with, I click Agree.

If someone has said something that is insightful, i.e they have provided insight, information etc into something or about something, I click Insightful.

If someone has said something I think is funny, entertaining, awesome, I click Awesome.

Darth_Trumpious

I miss the "lol" button back in the old forum so people can use it on stupid posts

good old days...

Zathras

The only thing I would add to the above, is when someone is clearly trolling a thread and giving a response meant to bait or inflame, I might toss them an Insightful in lieu of LOL. Yes, they gain an Insightful, but everyone else who sees it knows it is deeply sarcastic.

I give a lot of agrees. Awesome goes to those posts that really explain something very well, above and beyond, who may also get some applause if they were in the same room as me.

Minyassa

I click Awesome when something gives me a "NICE!" reaction. I use Agree literally. I use Insightful for things that are insightful OR as a substitute for a positive laugh reaction, like the "Haha" Facebook icon. There is no clickie for bad reactions.

KerinKor

Beardimus wrote: »

Insightful - i learnt something
Agree - agree
Awesome - funny

My definitions as well, though I also use 'awesome' occasionally for a post which discusses something in depth and I want to acknowledge the effort that went into it .. not all long posts are 'awesome'

KerinKor

Darth_Trumpious wrote: »

I miss the "lol" button back in the old forum so people can use it on stupid posts

good old days...

Not all people use 'lol' sarcastically you know.

quadraxis666

So, we can all agree that if we agree with something we would show our agreement by voting agree.

Vote agree if you agree.


Edit:
Or keep scrolling for satans

ChunkyCat

I just gave every post above mine a free insightful.

You’re welcome.

yRaven

Insightful: I went through the same thing? Click it

Agree: I agree? Yes. Find funny? Yes. Then i click it

Awesome: LOL? Yes. CLICK IT

yodased

Insightful for stimulating thought.
Agree for stimulating discussion.
Awesome for stimulating emotion.

If you can help me think,discuss or feel i click the button.

Sheezabeast

Agree, if they echo my sentiments to some degree.

Awesome if they say something well, genuinely make me laugh, or impress me in some way.

Insightful if they say something I hadn't thought of before, informative, or...a very different line of thinking that I question.

protofeckless

Insightful: Attempts to push back an ocean of willful ignorance in a given thread.
Agree: Never used.
Awesome: Never used.

Rake

Same as I PvP.
I press random keys and hope for the best.

Ragged_Claw

So the insightfuls I got are not because I'm clever, but people laughing at me *sobs*. I use it to indicate that the poster has told me something I didn't know, or a useful tip, that kind of thing.

Now I'm wondering about the 5 'LOLs' I got back in the day - there was me thinking I was the world's greatest living comedian...

Donny_Vito

This looks like a fishy method of farming insightfuls

ZarkingFrued

corpseblade wrote: »

On a lighter note, the above title asks what I would like to know. Obviously, I will go first.

Insightful: makes a point I hadn't considered even though I may disagree.

Agree: completely or substantially hits points with which I can agree.

Awesome: makes me laugh out loud and/or delights me with its cleverness.

I'm trying to figure out why you found it necessary to make a post defining words.. Mirriam-Webster would be proud.

Eldartar

Beardimus wrote: »

Insightful - i learnt something
Agree - agree
Awesome - funny

This

Dusk_Coven

I imagine trolls might mark Agree/Awesome to other troll posts.
Or, like Reddit, people might be upvoting fluff and garbage.

Since it's potentially easy to misuse or manipulate, and therefore misinterpret, I ignore all of it.