Facebook like button something that’s just so simple about the ‘like’ button’ ... but giving people more ways of expressing more emotions would be powerful. We need to figure out the right way to do it so it ends up being a force for good, not a force for bad and demeaning the posts that people are putting out there." While suggesting the comment field for users who feel the like button isn't appropriate, he said that Facebook had "no plans" to introduce a dislike button. In a new Q&A in September 2015, Zuckerberg said that Facebook was working on an "empathy button",
The Button (Reddit) and creator of the button "powerlanguage" announced the forum would be archived within ten minutes. The experiment ended with 1,008,316 logged button clicks. The Button experienced technical issues which caused it to reach zero despite users pressing it in time. This occurred multiple times and was attributed to database errors by reddit's administrators. The outages caused community discontentment and some speculation that the subreddit was being gamed by the administrators. Although The Button was revived within a day of the outages, the administrators of Reddit considered closing The Button experiment early. The inherent segregation on this specific Reddit community (subreddit)