I appreciate Yahoo trying to adapt and evolve the new comments and reaction section to be more user-friendly with emojis. However, because all reactions are lumped together in a single number (i.e. all thumbs up, laughing faces, hearts, and thumbs down are summed together), there has been an influx of inflammatory comments making the highest rated and top comment in an article. This has made the comments section seemingly more hostile and toxic. The old comment section was better as it allowed infammatory comments to be disliked and therefore buried. Users could see that it was a highly disliked comment and not just one that was the most interacted. The highest rated comments in the old comment section were therefore more good-willed and humane compared to the current format. Please reconsider your new comments and reactions UI so that infammatory comments get buried and instead of being highlighted as a top interacted comment.