Introducing AIBU voting

I have the button and I love it! It hasn’t stopped interaction on the posts and it’s a great way for the OP to get a clear message alongside the explanatory comments. I really hope you keep it!

LoL, oops, that didn't work.

Now, do I
[poll]

• like
• hate

That is the question‽

The AIBU threads are ridiculous enough already without making them more so. They are one sided.

I'm making a point of not reading the threads with a button on them - except one I looked at just now, because I thought from the title it might be a vote for or against the voting button, but it wasn't.

Boring as fuck. Thanks for dumbing down the conversation.

It's being used for tedious non-questions, and questions that don't have straightforward answers.

Even when it's used correctly, I feel like having the vote button before the discussion means I give a gut reaction rather than thinking it through.

Better things to invest in than a button!

It's ridiculous. Makes AIBU into a spectacle - something for entertainment.

Real life isn't bloody X-Factor.

Absolutely.

My bet is that anyone who sees the vote button is likely to look for threads which have it, and read them first. They do stick out rather.

I don't like it visually. That vote button is intrusive and ugly in the threads list.

Seems a pretty pointless addition IMHO.

It's ridiculous. Makes AIBU into a spectacle - something for entertainment.

Real life isn't bloody X-Factor.

I have given it a try, and it is OK, I still stand by what I said about the huge button and voting thingy being irritating and intrusive. It was interesting to be able to vote.

However, I have had enough of it now and have disabled it. The pages are full of enough crap as it is, and apart from an amusement I see no real use for it, no enhancement to the site really.

Maybe if the layout could be improved, but for now, it is a no from me.

Not sure how it manipulates people either, I mean you actively choose to add a poll or not, you don't have to.
As for the example math linked to, that's not really an AIBU - sounds like it's the relationship support board that should have been posted on instead.

@TheVanguardSix how exactly are you being manipulated... for being given an option to vote on something in poll form as well as comment form?

Loving it! Hope it becomes a regular feature!

Oh this is so cringe, MN.
Now I feel like I'm just being manipulated like some tool.
How gimmicky and awful.

Polls on sites like twitter change after a dew days - they show the results only after you've voted for the first couple of days, then just show it after that.

And I'm sure I've seen ones where current result doesn't show by default, but you can click a button to look.

Both this emotions seem rather more useful if you want a 'whole community' sort of approach

I wonder what the reason is for only being allowed to see the results of the voting if you vote yourself. To make sure that people aren't influenced by the existing results?
Seems a bit silly if so - it's hardly a Mori poll or a scientific trial.
It feels much more like

images.app.goo.gl/Ac3oXQGqrCBUgRYF9

On what basis is the decision made to add the voting button? Is it on a case by case basis, assessed by HQ or purely random?

The OP chooses if they want to enable voting or not when they start a thread.

Here is an example of a thread where a situation is a lot more complex than the silly YABU/YANBU buttons at the top of it.

To be fair, that's because it isn't an AIBU at all.

I agree with pp who are querying the fact some important fixes are outstanding that need to be resolved. Where are the priorities set?

Well looking at the threads I've seen voting buttons on....it just doesn't make sense

On one half the people have voted YANBU, but the wording of the op made it difficult to tell whether it's her that is NBU or her dh.

It trivialises complex and sometimes worrying situations

It makes threads more combative

It distracts from discussion

On what basis is the decision made to add the voting button? Is it on a case by case basis, assessed by HQ or purely random?

I absolutely agree, @mathanxiety the thread you've linked to is shocking, the OP is in an abusive relationship and the voting button turns it into a fun game for a bit of entertainment. It trivialises the OPs situation imo

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3617867-Log-book-thief?msgid=87973656#87973656

Here is an example of a thread where a situation is a lot more complex than the silly YABU/YANBU buttons at the top of it.

I have this as an option. I'm not keen as often the answer is not clear cut.

Yes or No choices only is too black and white and simplistically polarising and in this day and age we don't need any more of that.

I'd only use the function if there is also a vote to say 'its more complex than that'. I know that it what comments are for, but I think it'll make AIBU more dumbed down.