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'Like' button

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LonelyGoatherd · 11/11/2013 17:56

I imagine this has been requested a zillion times, but please could you consider a Like button for posts?

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DeepThought · 14/11/2013 23:43

eek at twatometer, mine would be

Maryz · 14/11/2013 23:13

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PeteCampbellsRecedingHairline · 14/11/2013 23:02

If we get votes mine is for the you are a twat button.

ChippingInLovesAutumn · 14/11/2013 23:01

Thank God Kate for that!

It is a chat site - if you don't want to 'chat' then lurk... 'like' is pointless, annoying & unnecessary.

DeepThought · 14/11/2013 22:57

Mary's post

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Sparklingbrook · 12/11/2013 17:44

KateSMumsnet (MNHQ) Tue 12-Nov-13 13:02:07

We have been considering the pros and cons of a like button for many a year now, but the vote still remains in the No camp, for various reasons- apologies to those who are desperate for it.

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KateSMumsnet · 12/11/2013 13:02

We have been considering the pros and cons of a like button for many a year now, but the vote still remains in the No camp, for various reasons- apologies to those who are desperate for it.

BackOnlyBriefly · 11/11/2013 19:45

I'm against all things facebook, but I find the like/dislike button useful on newspaper comments pages as it's like a quick survey of current opinion.

Perhaps there are downsides to it on here, but personally I've never been terribly upset if someone (or lots of someones) disliked my post.

After all without a like button people still post to say they don't like what I said. If I couldn't bear that I wouldn't be posting.

it shouldn't be called Like anyway. It should be Agree/Disagree.

Tee2072 · 11/11/2013 19:30

I like Mist's idea.

lemonmuffin · 11/11/2013 19:10

Yes please, i would love a like button

MistAllChuckingFrighty · 11/11/2013 19:06

Only if we get a "you are a twat" button too

IslaValargeone · 11/11/2013 19:05

It's not like we couldn't predict the posters who'd end up with the likes is it.
I think some people would feel even more ignored than they do if we had that facility.

renlo · 11/11/2013 19:04

I 'like' the idea of a 'like' button but 'dislike' the idea of a 'dislike' button Grin

Sparklingbrook · 11/11/2013 19:00

Only if you want to kill any sort of conversation and reduce MN to a collection of thumbs up/down.

My vote

Tee2072 · 11/11/2013 18:55

I just felt like saying baa. Just because.

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LonelyGoatherd · 11/11/2013 18:55

Yeah, but reading "Great post" etc is dull dull dull. Would rather read the meat of the discussion, and restrict the fawning/admiration/acknowledgements to a Tick.
I see that I'm (nearly) alone on this though so am bowing out for now.

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IslaValargeone · 11/11/2013 18:50

No, No and ffs thricely No.

DeepThought · 11/11/2013 18:49

Guffawing at you being a baaaaa-er, Tee Grin

Tee2072 · 11/11/2013 18:48

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

DeepThought · 11/11/2013 18:41

Lazy innit

not hard to type great post JoeBloggs. Or Tee.

Making you think instead of just blindly ticking like like like baa baa baa

CuntyBunty · 11/11/2013 18:34

I want a "dislike" button.

TheFallenMadonna · 11/11/2013 18:28

....is the MN convention.

TheFallenMadonna · 11/11/2013 18:27

What Trills said.

Tee2072 · 11/11/2013 18:21

And how bad would you feel if no one ever liked your posts?

Or unliked them?

Or disliked them?

Let's just not go there.