React with emotion
Use familiar reactions to show how a post, topic, person, service, or public moment makes you feel.
RYS Public Sentiment
Turn everyday reactions into a clearer public voice.
RateYourSociety gives people more than a comment box. React to the moments that matter, share a considered opinion, answer polls, compare viewpoints, and support public causes—all in one participation platform.
- Emoji reactions
- Opinion posts
- Polls and petitions
Example topic
How does the community feel?
Every reaction adds another human signal to the picture.
Reactions
Express a feeling in one tap
My Opinion
Publish the view behind the feeling
Example sentiment mix
Fast to expressStart with a familiar emotional reaction.
Deep when neededAdd opinions, polls, and public discussion.
Built for perspectiveSee how different voices shape the mood.
Ways to participate
Expression that goes from instinct to insight.
Different moments call for different kinds of participation. RYS makes the quick signal, the longer view, and the collective response part of the same experience.
Publish public posts
Bring a subject into the public conversation and invite the community to react, respond, and share.
Share your opinion
Move beyond a quick reaction with a focused viewpoint and see how other participants respond.
Ask with polls
Give people clear choices, gather responses, and make the direction of a group easier to understand.
Compare sentiment
Put subjects or viewpoints side by side to understand where reactions align and where they differ.
Support a cause
Add your signature to petitions and community causes that deserve visible, collective support.
How it works
A simple path from feeling to participation.
Join at the level that fits the moment, then go deeper whenever you have more to say.
- Step 01
Discover the topic
Open public posts, opinions, polls, or petitions connected to what people are discussing.
- Step 02
Add your signal
React, vote, sign, or share a clear opinion without needing a complicated survey.
- Step 03
See the wider mood
Explore how individual responses combine into a more useful picture of public sentiment.
Built for real questions
Understand the response, not just the reach.
RYS helps people and groups move beyond view counts by creating visible opportunities to express emotion, make a choice, explain a position, or stand behind a cause.
- Everyday participantsSay how something feels in seconds.
- Community leadersAsk focused questions and hear the group.
- Creators and organizersInvite a response around ideas and events.
- Public-interest groupsBuild visible support for shared causes.
Open, explainable signals
Trace every summary back to the public posts and counts behind it.
The live RYS dataset publishes a privacy-safe projection of recent eligible public posts: dates, topics, engagement totals, all ten emotion counts, a clearly defined positive balance, and canonical source links.
- Self-selected activityDescribes participation on RYS, not an entire population.
- Counts with denominatorsSeparates reacting accounts from multiple emotion selections.
- Transparent methodDefines positive, neutral, and negative reaction groups.
- Citable sourcesLinks each record to its canonical public RYS post.
Questions
Public sentiment on RYS
Public expression can begin with a feeling and grow into a meaningful conversation.
What counts as public sentiment on RYS?
The picture can include reactions, opinions, poll responses, comparisons, petition support, and conversation around public posts.
Do I have to write a long comment?
No. You can begin with a familiar emoji reaction, then choose to add a vote, signature, post, or opinion when you want to say more.
Can communities use these tools too?
Yes. Communities can use polls, petitions, announcements, posts, and conversations inside their own organized spaces.
Is this a scientific poll or a measure of the whole population?
No. RYS data describes self-selected activity by platform participants. It is not a representative sample, population estimate, causal analysis, or prediction.
Where do I start?
Open public posts to explore what people are responding to, or visit My Opinion when you are ready to publish a focused view.
The RYS ecosystem
Explore every way to take part.
Public sentiment becomes more useful when people can connect, learn, play, and gather live around the same platform.
What does society feel right now?
Explore public posts, add your reaction, and discover the viewpoints shaping the conversation.