It’s really that simple… we need a laugh react. Discourse, the forum software we are using, has the ability to add other reacts instead of just a heart. Many posts deserve a laugh react to their posts.
A laugh react would add more spirit and charm to the forum and allow posters to become more engaged with the topics and posts. While keeping the down vote option out since it could be used as a means to troll and upset posters, a laugh react would liven the thread in a positive way.
I mean…
Indeed.
My honest reaction to this thread:
You can always use youtube memes
I’d run out of these before the first hour.
lmao.
I think emoji reacts that aren’t blatant would be good. I disliked the downvote/upvote system, but would be fine with a few options. Make sure to include this one…it’s awesome.
Throw in a bunch of options:
Options are always good, pretty much anything is better than what we have now, like or nothing 
I preferred the upvote/downvote system. It gave a clear interpretation of what the playerbase wanted/supported, and what they clearly think is unnecessary to themselves or game development time.
I remember a lot complaining about their posts receiving hundreds of downvotes….and frankly if 100s of players thought your post was unhelpful and terrible then…yes maybe it shouldn’t be shoved up there with other actual requests with player support.
If you ever checked out those posts, they were either obvious trolling, or things already said and clearly just to annoy players, or try to spam and force a repeated opinion (like “I WANT HIGH ELVES”) everywhere they could, just to be antagonistic…
It’s silly that in this day and age we are so terrified of even marginally having someone’s feelings potentially hurt that we keep going to such lengths.
If anything I felt the downvote feature kept troll posts and trolling more in check with a large pool of committed players clicking the button in agreement.
*like or report for dislike
While i agree that having the like/dislike was better, it was really only an indication of what the forum community liked or didn’t like, that wasn’t always consistent with what the overall player base wanted.
There already seems to be a lot of reactions beside a heart. Have you ever clicked “:” and then clicked on the “More…” option?
What it really needs is an easier and more permanent way of putting people (account-wide) on ignore.
yeah… everyone knows those are there.
op was requesting react options, not emojis.
we currently have two options when it comes to reacting to a post.
we can choose 
or not
we should have more options.
That probably wouldn’t work in these forums. The laugh react would just be used as a troll or “dislike” button. So, people who would get “laughed at” would probably start reporting everyone for hate speech…or something.
Uhh, btw, I’m for more options like that, lol. And the dislike button being brought back.