'like', 'dislike' or 'laugh' at posts

Probably not but you can see why they'd be worried about MN turning into a popularity contest.

No thank you. One of the things I like about MN is the fact that it doesn't have that kind of thing.

I wonder if you'd be brave enough to be so snide and condescending to someone face to face? I guess not.

I'd vote for a like button but not a dislike one.

You're an optimist! 😮 grins like a lit up Christmas tree Never been called that before. Being like Eeyore is more the usual 😂

I am more and more of the opinion that 1000 posts is far too many. I also can't see why threads have to remain open to new posts for the rest of time.
Agree 100% on both. A year would be fine for any OP updates.

Don’t be daft OP. Some of the posters on here, would be traumatised if their post got a thumbs down
They’d do be on here crying and claiming their mental health had been severely affected 😀

I am more and more of the opinion that 1000 posts is far too many. I also can't see why threads have to remain open to new posts for the rest of time.

Those are different problems and not going to be helped by a 'like' or 'dislike' button.

Yes, I think it works on Reddit (and as a moderation tool) but can't see it being a useful on Mumsnet at all.

It would enhance the clique echo chamber areas of Mumsnet more, as another poster has said.

I really can't see it killing conversation on a chat forum?

I mean, in all the years I've been here there have been loads of posts/posters that just quote others and say "This ^^".

Despite that, conversation has still continued and I don't see "This ^^" as any different to clicking 'like'.

No - I like to see posters expressing their views through the medium of the written word (with varying success). Thumbs up/down/laughing doesn't encourage that - there are plenty of other places I can go to put my wee thumb if I cba to do much more than that.

No.. the rest of internet is a popularity fest, I like that here is free of it.

If you like something enough then speak out, add your voice to the topic, add extra ideas that others haven't thought of.

You're an optimist! There are indeed some threads on MN where there is a genuine conversation but they're few and far between. Most long threads are very repetitive.

I am more and more of the opinion that 1000 posts is far too many. I also can't see why threads have to remain open to new posts for the rest of time.

If it’s the forum I’m thinking if, the amount of angsty posts complaining that someone disliked a previous post of theirs gets old pretty quickly. (And any post complaining about disagree clicks, gets a bajillion disagree clicks).
It can derail a discussion into “how bad disagreeing is”instead of the subject at hand.

And it will annoy me if we get this and still don't have an edit button.

Personally I’m not a fan of this. MN can a cliquey echo-chamber at the best of times and a dislike button wouldn’t help things. I also don’t think it would add anything to the experience. It’s not like Reddit where posts are sorted by up and downvotes.

Yuck no thanks. The pile-ons would be even worse, like on YouTube 5 years ago.

Well, I'm going to swim against the tide and say I think something of this sort could improve some long threads. I would like to see the option to click on something that would look like a cancelled cheque (although I imagine younger posters might need training in what a cheque was) which could be used to tell the OP to do something blindingly obvious. This would save several hundred people from saying it over and over again in words, often years later, because they hadn't RTFT. (Actually, RTFT would be an exceptionally useful button.)

No, never a popular suggestion on here. I agree. Imagine the rows it could produce, individual posts being disliked, especially if it was anonymous.

Nope. If I wanted that I'd be on Facebook.

No thanks. I find liking a post as quite dismissive. And could also just be a slip of the finger rather than actually like, the amount of times I've clicked advanced search inserted of bookmark since the update, aarrrggghhh. If you like something enough then speak out, add your voice to the topic, add extra ideas that others haven't thought of. Let the discussion evolve and weave. Other SM sites aren't as alive as this one imo.

As for moving this to AIBU for votes. I never voted even if I post.

I've always thought this would be a good feature and I have to say I thought it was just an oversight from an incompetent dev team 😂 It's good to know it's an actual strategic decision.

Yes. I'd prefer it. 👍

No thanks.

This is a discussion forum. I come here to engage with other people’s thoughts and ideas - which they express through words.

And yes, the popularity contest aspect has been more than adequately adumbrated countless times.

But it’s good that people have a choice of where they feel most at home on the Internet …

No

I really like it that those functions do not exist here. You don't just click, you post and say something.

Many times debated, even voted upon, and it's been a pretty solid 'no'