Limit "reaction" count to be 1 per unique user

[rylandg]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Right now, users are able to react with 3 different emojis on each post. Although this is a fun way to interact with content, it's also a public rating mechanism for content. Anytime "points" are assigned to something, you need to worry about the way people will abuse/value those points. But because the reactions are so indirect in terms of what they represent to each user, nobody seems to use them consistently.

On the author side, this leads to a lack of visibility into how many users actually reacted to your post. You know the minimum (total reactions / 3) but not the true value.

On the poster side, if you're the type of person who gives only 1 reaction, you may perceive a post with 30 of each reaction as "Amazing". But in reality, that could have only been 10 people, not the 30 you expect.

This design would be less problematic for other platforms, but because Dev.to hides both follower counts and public page views, it leads to a potentially unhealthy feedback loop.

Describe the solution you'd like

Reader experience unchanged, they can react with 1-3 of the emojis. But externally, any number of reactions will be treated as 1 total reaction which increments the count on all of the emojis. That way, you can see the total number of unique reactions, as opposed to guessing.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Always choose the reaction count with highest reactions.

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