Introducing AIBU voting

It appears that I've been given 'the power' to vote. I didn't realise as the feature looks like an ad and I automatically scrolled past it. It wasn't until I saw someone post a screenshot and I looked back for it that I actually realised I was able to vote.

I think this is a good idea. Have already done one this eve!

All it's doing is highlighting the % of people who think the OP is being unreasonable, and the % of people who think the OP is being reasonable

Which is exactly the same as like/dislike or up/down voting whatever you wish to call it.

I'm on iPad, wasn't chosen to try it but also cannot even see it.

I disagree that it's like the 'like' or favourite' button. All it's doing is highlighting the % of people who think the OP is being unreasonable, and the % of people who think the OP is being reasonable. Which is what the posters do when they post.

It's just a quick way of seeing how many posters think the OP is being unreasonable/reasonable. You can still post on the thread(s.)

I think it's pretty cool.

I would like to see an edit button though, even if it does only give us say, 60 seconds to do it, just to correct stupid typos!!! (Like digital spy does.)

@TomMumsnet could we have an edit button? (Even just for a minute or two?)

Is this about giving the trolls something to properly compete for?

Whoop! I have just voted on my FIRST one!!! (My first AIBU!)

Well I just came to find the tread about it after finding the voting button in a thread.

I don’t think I like it. I’d sooner a chat.

This is basically the like button debate again. It will be sparkly tickers next.

I use this site less and less, it's not the same progressive site any more. If you continue to dumb it down further, I think a lot of people will vote with their feet and leave.

I know you don't care about that now, but you guys used to care when there was a handful of people here and people paid for CAT - going back to your roots of what this site really is rather than making it the comment section of the daily fail is what's needed here. Not this.

It sounds fun on first thought but this is actually a horrible idea and will dissuade meaningful interaction. Not that every post contributes something, but there will definitely be even less I think.

Shame they're not ditching AIBU altogether instead of 'enhancing' it.

Oh no! That would be awful!

AIBU is the topic you go for entertainment, the others are for real questions. Why would you remove AIBU?! There's no MN without it.

Shame they're not ditching AIBU altogether instead of 'enhancing' it.

I love it!!

Annoying that it doesn't work on the iPhone app. Either make it work on all major platforms or not at all.

To be honest I tend to go on and on and share my opinion even if it's not wanted. So I'll likely vote and explain why I voted.

I think there will always be those who complain.

The test thread started by a PP is a prime example of what it will do to the boards - over 300 votes but only 50-something comments.

Hmmm I think it's too soon to say. Users forget that there are potentially millions of lurkers on the boards. You have no way of knowing whether the 300 people who voted would have ever left a comment. They might be the lurkers we forget about!

Brilliant, love it.

Just voted on a thread.

Oh I feel terribly jealous now!

I'm just happy to have discovered I can turn it off.

Just voted on a thread. All I needed to say really, so great idea. Thumbs up from me.

Can't see it on iPhone app.

What is the point of this? What is there to like? I'm genuinely as to what enjoyment anyone will out of reading a thread and seeing that 402 people have ticked one box and 358 have ticked another.

Jesus so many posters here don't bother to read the OPs posts half the time and post pointless knee jerk reactions which are no longer valid already. Now they can do it by clicking a button. How exciting ...

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Why not add the vote button to this thread?

According to the OP: From today, a few randomly selected Mumsnet users will be able to access a voting function on AIBU posts I assume MNHQ weren't randomly selected

Doesn't work on the app, using an iPhone

MN will lose the comedy value of 999 people saying 'cancel the cheque'

Instead we'll have 999 people repeating "Can the people down voting voting YABU please explain why!"