Facebook users have clamored for years for a “Dislike” button that could balance out the functions of the “Like” button and give them a way to quickly respond to disheartening statuses. Over the years, the Facebook “Like” has become quite the versatile social media function, used in many situations to express true excitement or affection. For instance, Likes following an engagement or a status about getting into a great college are no doubt genuine. Still, the function is also occasionally used ironically to express humor, condolences, vehement dislike, and probably a plethora of other emotions as well. Quite simply, the Facebook “Like” is an ambiguous device.

According to Huffington Post, however, Facebookers may soon be getting a second button to expand their palette a bit. No, Facebook has not finally broken down and decided to realize the widely-desired “Dislike.” Instead, an engineer at the company has let loose the fact that a “Sympathize” button could be on the way for the next redesign of the social networking site.

Of course, “could” is the key word in that sentence. Supposedly, the new “Sympathize” button was dreamed up awhile back at one of Facebook’s many hackathons – events where the company’s programmers get together in a free-for-all environment and write code for potential new site features – but is not currently planned for wide-scale site distribution. On the official Facebook “Hackathons” page – which, funnily enough, has over 82,000 likes – Facebook calls the events “a foundation for some great (and not so great) ideas,” meaning that not all of them – or indeed, most of them – ever make it past the drawing board.

The “Sympathize” button was recently described by Facebook engineer Dan Muriello – though Muriello said a colleague had come up with the idea – at what Facebook calls Compassion Research Day. (Yes, that’s a real thing.) And while the “Sympathize” button was the perfect kind of thematic fodder for a day of lectures based on compassionate human behavior, Muriello said that Facebook had decided that it isn’t the right time to launch such a feature.

“Yet,” he qualified.

Ultimately, the “Sympathize” feature would be meant for use in situations where a “Like” seems inappropriate, such as posts concerning deaths, break-ups, car accidents, failed exams, and other unfortunate occurrences. In addition, Facebook users would undoubtedly abuse the feature and employ it in a slew of ironic situations, but that would all be part of the fun.

So does the “Sympathize” button stand a chance of ever becoming part of Facebook as we know it? It’s a certainly a possibility: from Facebook chat to Timeline to the “Like” itself, many of Facebook’s most notable changes over the years have been born from Hackathon sessions. The “Sympathize” button could be the next.