The idea is so stupid, it is not worth to spend the time discussing it. If wordpress core think that what wordpress users want is an facebook experience, then the result will be a plugin with 1M users in the repository to disable this stupidity.

What is more interesting is the way the community works. If you remember some time ago helen complained that there was no community feedback to one of the features which resulted in a design which the community was not very happy with, and just few posts ago a jetpack team member said that "wordpress is a community effort".

Forward to the "reactions" post in the make blog, and gary simply deletes all comments which were negative to the idea. Now, I understand that I am a no-one, but deleting Otto's comment? If Otto is not someone which his opinion matters in the eyes of core developers, then is there anyone the will agree to get input from? What kind a community is that? (and yes @mac2net I am still banned).

It actually matches a feeling I had before, enforced by the jpeg quality reduction discussion on "make" or actually the lack of it. Seems like posting on "make" is just a bureaucratic step, no input is actually desired and all input given by non core contributors is just ignored.

Seems like the "reactions" plugin fits "make" in its current state. Install it and remove the comment form, save people the illusion as if their naunced opinion matters. +1, and -1 should be good enough there, actually no point in -1 as well.