Ability to disable chat reactions
Please provided a setting that would allow a user to disable the emoji reactions on the chat feature. This gets in the way when trying to copy and paste, or simply hovering a cursor over a message.
Andy
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Ricardo Canani
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Our company wants to enforce a simple strict org-wide policy: absolutely NO emojis allowed, period. Why cannot Microsoft understand that ?
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Wesley Wilson
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I agree - It is not developmentally appropriate for adolescents and provides similar issues that social media presents to the developing brain. Please allow it to be disabled - not just for each post, but the option for Admin to turn it off completely would be great. Thank you.
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Anonymous
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yes....additionally it's annoying
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Anonymous
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Has anyone raised with Office365 support? Surely there is a way to do this via powershell.
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Andrew
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Students really abuse this and this then has direct impact on their learning as they are disrupting the lessons with their constant reactions and notifications. A very poor decision to add this again I question if Microsoft have even thought once about how their so called VLE will work in a well established school as so far it has just given me set back after set back. Just another disappointment to the extremely long list.
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Anonymous
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Displaying the chat reaction icons on hover action leads to accidental click-ing on reactions when browsing or just clicking the messages.
The current behavior is very bad for User Experience!!
Please add an option to disable chat reactions: in settings area and in the drop-down menu on chat reactions bar. -
Minh Tang
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Same here, also a user of TTS. I copy my messages to the clipboard to have them read out to me. I accidentally clicked those reaction at least 3-4 time per day. So many time I had to explain to people that I'm not angry or in love with them.
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Veronica Navarro
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It would be especially useful in Teams for Education.
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Michael O'Neill
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Agreed. I have accidentally clicked on an angry emoji during a serious discussion when I was actually totally fine with the conversation !
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Joaquim Monteiro
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what stupid idea was this 'feature'
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Hari Shankar
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That looks so unprofessional when the reaction gets clicked by mistake when copying text/hovering mouse over it. Request for an option in admin center where that can be disabled by Teams administrator based on organization's policy.
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J F
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Please remove, or provide an option to disable, this feature. It is extremely annoying, very inappropriate and can cause great embarrassment in a corporate setting.
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Z K
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That's right. Copying text out of a message is a nightmare. Please change to allow for efficient use of Teams in professional environment.
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czang
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I'm using TTS application to read messages, this reactions are nightmare!
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Vinoth S
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Its most of the time accidental & annoying, keeps popping on every conversation text in the chat. Its degradation for official use.
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Kent
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The vast majority of my chat reactions are accidental and thus typically inappropriate (i.e. embarrassing).
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Deeved Funaki
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Yeah please let us at least disable it. It's annoying
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Garrett Fuller
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These things are in the way, and 9 time out of 10 not appropriate for the profession discussions being held.
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Jason Cramsey
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Yes, please! When I move my cursor to click a hyperlink in the chat, and before I can click the Reaction panel opens, and I instead click a reaction instead. Now that person thinks I love them or whatever other random reaction was clicked. I am never (intentionally) going to use the Reactions, so please give me a way to disable them.
See also these.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/37897207-stop-reaction-emoji-choice-from-showing-when-hover
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/38051281-the-reactions-are-great-but-the-ui-for-them-could