I made a \o/ emoji, mostly for fun but we could use it if we want.
Here it is at emoji size:
Here’s the gimp source file. Discourse wouldn’t let me upload it as a .xcf*, so just remove the txt extension after you download: whoooo.xcf.txt (32.9 KB).
*I fixed this after in the admin panel but I can’t actually fix it for this specific file.
nice first version, but I don’t find the expression correct. The smile and eyes and relative size of the face doesn’t capture the same feeling as \o/ does. Here’s a tweak:
and xcf: w00t.xcf (33.0 KB)
addendum: I think the hands ideally would be either fist or spread fingers…
One more variant (then I get back to real work):
w00t2.xcf (26.5 KB)
I edited my post above with suggestion for final setup but now I’m feeling again that we’re missing the key response (which almost deserves to be primary): “valuable post”
Basically, we want some positive acknowledgement / appreciation for the post itself, effectively “I appreciate this post”. That doesn’t mean I like it (it could be reporting a real problem) or love it or am thankful for it (it might not reflect much work, and I want to reserve the 
response for less common cases)…
This gets back to why I was encouraging “respect” because that’s similar to “appreciate” and the real goal of having a main acknowledgement reaction.
Brainstorming: 
nod or “mhm”
That would allow us to put “respect” back in, as a retort reaction (which could replace ‘like/agree’ or be in addition – more likely to replace if we go with 
as primary).
Note that we could also change the retort button icon.
Primary reaction:
— Appreciate
Retort reactions:
\o/ — yay
— haha
— changed_my_mind
— tldr
— skeptical
— sympathies
So, we can change Retort emojis later with minimum hassle.
The set-in-stone thing is the primary reaction. Shuffling reactions where it would affect the primary is not okay. But other than that, we can do whatever with Retort:
So, overall, we can pretty freely tweak the reaction set as needed as we go!
misc extra note: I can retort-react to my own post, but can’t use the primary reaction
At some point I think it’d be nice to change 
to mimi/eunice with that gesture. Not in the immediate future, though.
Along with our choice of ‘appreciate’, this seems entirely appropriate.
Well since it seems the discusses purpose was more about the “TL” than the “DR” (perhaps you read it all but don’t think others will), how about an emoji-style icon of just the letters “TL”. Definitely better than confused icon.
Quite the necro, lol. Over in Custom emojis (esp. as retort reactions) (edit: moved here) we decided on 
and I’m happy enough with that.
Similarly, a single-icon form of “ACK” (like in classic radio communications) would be pretty cool to me.
Edit: yeah slowly catching up sorry
Brainstorming ideas for “agree” and “disagree” icons, with my new S Pen:
Without having read that thread yet, my intital reaction is that while it does convey “too long” (in a funny, almost sarcastic “what is this, a newspaper?” way) - it does not convey the “please condense” meaning, which is more important.
More brainstorming
I moved your replies to this thread, where they’re more on-topic.
I appreciate your interest in catching up on these discussions, and I like your specific suggestion — even just as a simple rename from tldr to shorter_please or something like that.
I also think there are much higher priority issues to resolve — the crowdmatching update and improving our ability to receive contributions from volunteers (the other thread you replied on) are two — so I don’t want to spend much time revisiting this right now.
Changes to retort reactions don’t apply retroactively (unlike the primary reaction), so it’s easy enough to change them at any time; we don’t need to get them totally right before the forum starts getting more traffic.
