To think we should have the option to have the laughing emoji on our threads

As an emoji I thought it depicted a cruel face that was showing derision with the capability to wish to humiliate.
Is there not a a more neutral emoji anywhere that merely depicts amusement.
I would rather a simple Thumbs Down to show disagreement. Not a derisory laugh.

@Petpeeveoftheday MNHQ have said they'll look into this 👍

I agree with this. I enjoy debate. I love an articulate re direction and this has had a real influence on me on MN.

I have views that some won't like and i would be categorized as a certain person for expressing that. I'm therefore in the camp of letting people speak their truth and we can all debate that.

My point is, no way is this laughing emoji situation in any way in the same category of eroding freedoms as posters suggest. It is not ' hurty word's' insanity, censorship of free speech etc etc. I am one of the most outspoken people I know.

Yet - this laughing emoji shit that I received ( not on my knees luckily at the time) - it really was unpleasant even for me. It silos you because it's just you getting it and no one sees it. If you're on your absolute arse and some pea brain twat sends you that - it is not ok for me thanks. However, if that person has the balls and brains to articulate a challenge in a post then I'm ok with that. I will jump on and challenge anything that's simply nasty bullying like behavior. ( Not the same as saying 'I don't agree' to be clear,)

Let us see the fuckers emojis applied to each post and I'm good for the return of laughing face.

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OP, I've started a thread in Site Stuff linking to this one ☘

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/5455271-dear-mnhq-a-good-suggestion-regarding-putting-the-laugh-react-emoji-back?reply=148986678

MN doesn’t remove some outrageous posts so can’t see them removing anonymous emojis.

As I said upthread I’m quite robust but didn’t like being on the receiving end of these emojis.

@Petpeeveoftheday why not start a thread in Site Stuff and link to this one?

Currently 87% have said YANBU so maybe MNHQ might consider your idea?

You are misunderstanding the poster’s understanding.

I do understand your point but @EchoedSilence has a point too.

Edit. Shit! I tried to stop using the word ‘point’ and ended up using ‘Understanding’ too much!

Fuckin’ ‘ell.

EchoedSilence · Yesterday 21:20
No I'm just fed up of MNHQ listening to the chosen few.

I'm pretty sure that those going through bereavement, miscarriage, fertility issues or the loss of a child don't consider themselves "the chosen few"

Yes it’s done and gone.

Our freedoms are being systematically removed tiny bit by tiny bit on an infinitesimal scale.

You’d think so… unfortunately there is a lot of people these days offended even by their own shadow 💁🏼‍♀️ don’t worry you can still reply with laughing emoji even if the actual reaction was removed. It’s probably only matter of time before using emojis in txt box will be removed as well.

I'm not so sure. It is now apparent to most that people can go to the depths of cruelty on SM.

People will laugh at dead children, people will say someone deserves to die. People still mock parents who have dead children.

I would like a reasoned decent person in my corner when in the depths of despair personally. I also would chime in with eagerness to support a vulnerable poster I saw being undermined, mocked and piled on.

Edit - apologies, I see what your post meant. The visible emoji option that I like the idea of would out these people when MN is not able to immediately jump on it. It's a way of helping moderate ourselves the dross on here.

@Namechangetime99 no one talking about rape and being laughed at should have to rely on other posters defending them .
Surely mnhq can see the odd poster who put a laughing emoji on a rape thread and simply ban them

There's a thread right now about a boy who was patted down by a female teacher around his genitals and he's still traumatised by the event. I imagine some people would use it on posts about his feelings in their attempts to minimise and dismiss what happened to him.

They are probably bound by general rules from.advertisers and the like about how nasty this place is allowed to be.

That’s so terribly sad and cruel and goes beyond understanding what makes some people tick doesn’t it. It’s the fact that, again, due to some cruel or exploitative people, we all have to succumb to being monitored.

I liked the laugh emoji, however given that it was used in a thread where the OP felt suicidal (and used on their post) and in one where a poster was talked about their dead child I totally support MN scrapping it.

It wasn't used in a 'mean' way. It was used in a vile way.

Ah ok, Thanks. Sorry you had that experience.

I took it that the OP was thinking things through, like a work-in-progress thing. That's how the thread developed after other people responded to it.

I didn't articulate that well - I personally experienced it in protest to a comment on serious threads / topics. I personally have received many laugh emojis on posts that are certainly not funny.

It leave a very unpleasant taste tbh. I much prefer a public debate where all can see.

I recall a few threads where posters would name and shame in a follow on post. For example ' name poster and ask why they keep submitting laugh emojis.

Annoys me when anyone quotes a huge, long thread tbf.

Annoys me seeing someone quoting a great long thread and simply posting a laughing reply.
Zzzzzzz

We have to be controlled lest we use it unwisely.

Such is life now.

I don't understand how people could "see it a lot" when the reactions were private. What am I missing?