Introducing AIBU voting

I like it! I hope it gets rolled out to the app soon.

Not looking forward to the 3000 threads moaning about it though.

Will this be rolled out to the App too if successful?

Strange.

I just clicked back on to @EggysMom thread and the voting part has disappeared.

Oh, so the OP gets to turn it off? So all those purely after froth will turn it off? Then no, pointless.

I really don't like it.

The 'vote' button to the right of the thread title is obtrusive then when you actually click of the thread, the large panel where you click to actually vote is even more obtrusive.

Not to be completely negative but it's a bit shit, I can't immediately grasp the word I'm looking for. Tacky? Twee? It reduces the board down to clicks and like-farming, instead of people commenting to explain why they've clicked on YABU/YANBU they'll just click and then move on. Where's the craic in that?

I agree that an edit function and a way to permanently ban PBPs and trolls would have been a better update.

Two questions for the Mumsnet team:

(1) How do I see the ongoing score? As the OP, surely I should see this without having to vote myself.

(2) Does the vote stay open forever (unless I close it)? Might be better to either have a selectable time (1 day, 2 days, 1 week) or a fixed time limit (1 week).

I do like the option somebody else said of having a button for "This is not an AIBU"

I voted Eggy

I also changed my vote, so it seems posters can also change their mind.

Sadly not, Soupy, I'm on Classic and have just encountered it

Damn, it's not limited to "new" and it looks huge and utterly ridiculous.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3614840-AIBU-to-make-a-thread-purely-to-test-the-AIBU-voting

Bilge, not binge

Okay, I'll go make a thread ....

Good point soup! What thread you loving Frangipani?

There must be one given another poster has claimed they are loving it.

I've not seen any - I'm hoping it's another thing limited to "MN new" and not visible on Classic.

Had anyone used this yet? Is there a thread running where we can see this?

Ooooh, I've got it. Now all I need is an AIBU to post ...

I think it's a really good idea, sometimes I cba to comment on a thread or would just be repeating what someone else has already said.
Also a vote/poll type thing that an op can create themselves for baby names, outfits and such could be useful ?

Voting? On AIBU? Criminy.

Gutted I don't have this! I want to try it. Whoever said about Digital Spy, it wasn't just the voting system that put people off. The white background made the whole forum
unreadable! That's when I came here and I loved DS.

I agree about editing. Why not have a short window before it's locked down - say, 60 seconds and/or a message added to any edited posts to say they have been edited? Enough to let you get rid of that embarrassing typo or auto-correct, but not long enough to go back and completely change what you say or add a vital drip-feed after 739 Mnetters have said you're being U?

LOVING IT!!

Lovely to see how MNHQ have decided to praise a poster who likes the idea, and ignore all those who don't.

This is a 'like' function by another name.

MNHQ have actually polled users before, and it has been roundly rejected every time.

Has there actually been that large-scale consultation this time round? And if not, why not? Given the history of the issue.

Is it too late to vote against this?

Great idea. I’d love a like button as well tbh This site needs changes

I'm not sure if that would work well in situations where the OP posts a vague situation or misses out significant pieces of information or does a massive drip feed later if the thread (or with the poll, results) aren't going there way.
There is no way of saying what is the consensus given the changing information available.

It also seems like journo-fodder for headlines like '347 mumsnetters think that a man not folding socks correctly is emotionally abusive'.