What is a reaction score?

[philipma1957]

My reaction score is 360 it was 359. I am trying to find out how is it based. Is it thumbs up totals?
when did it start? I just noticed it this week. I was moving close to 6500 posts and wanted to make 604 rank. So I read a reaction score of 359 which is up to 360. I could not find a thread on reaction score other than thumbs down being frozen if you give a lot.

 

[eyoungren]

Your reaction score is the total number of likes you've received for all your posts.

Outside of the news section on MacRumors there is no dislike (thumbs down) button.

Not sure what happen if someone removes their reaction to a post though. However, if you ever have any moderated posts that were 'liked' that get removed, you lose those.

 

[arn]

Like, Love, Haha, Wow are +1
Sad, Angry are +0
Disagree is -1

Reaction score is sum of those.

If someone removes a reaction or a post is deleted then I assume the counts change accordingly.

 

[chown33]

You can view your overall reaction score (sum of all), along with the per-reaction breakouts (count of each reaction), and the most recently received reactions, in your individual "Reactions received" pane:

https://forums.macrumors.com/account/reactions