I replaced the like button with a weighted slider. Here's the architecture behind it.

Every social platform has a reaction system. Facebook has six emoji reactions. Twitter has a heart. Instagram has a heart. Reddit has upvote/downvote. They all share the same fundamental design: a binary or near-binary signal that tells the algorithm "more of this" or "less of this." I built a social platform called LINKWAVEZ where the reaction system works differently. Instead of a like button, users respond with a Resonance Slider — a continuous input that weights their reaction between two values: Aura (emotional impact) and Wisdom (intellectual impact). This post explains the technical architecture behind that system and the dual scoring engine it feeds into. The Resonance Slider When a user sees a post (we call them Poses), they can react by dragging a slider between two poles. Full left is pure Aura — the post moved them emotionally. Full right is pure Wisdom — the post made them think. Most reactions land somewhere in the middle. The slider outputs a value between 0.0 and 1.0, w