Now that MNHQ has given us a support emoji reaction can we have a laugh out loud one as well?

The only reason anyone used it was to mock a poster.

That is simply not true. I often used it to acknowledge a humourous comment or turn of phrase, was always pleased when someone indicated that they 'got' one of my comments or allusions. I NEVER saw it used to mock me, I NEVER used it to mock anyone else.

There's a 'who smelt it, dealt it' vibe to the objections. In 'real life' do you never laugh along with friends in an affectionate and affirming way?

Am I a bad person for having genuinely laughed out loud at that?

The only reason anyone used it was to mock a poster.

Well that's not true! What a crazy idea. How would you even know?

Self appointed Head Girl 😁

Tell me about it. It comes across as very chronically online. You're definitely on mumsnet too much, if you feel the need to "fight" to get features removed.

Big eyeroll at "It should never have been a function and as far as I'm concerned never will ever again." Like they're the keeper of mumsnet 😂

What a load of overwrought drama 🙄😁

I'm not a troll. I always used it as intended. Just make it so you can report laugh reacts that you feel are "mocking".

It was a great tool for letting other posters know when you found their posts witty and amusing, without clogging up the thread with emojis.

Bollocks it was! Only for trolls.

Bollocks. It was a great function.

NO!!! Some of us fought so hard to get it removed. The only reason anyone used it was to mock a poster. Same as on facebook when people 'laugh' react to someone's post. There is absolutely no need for it, and I and others will fight any attempt to have it put back on again. It should never have been a function and as far as I'm concerned never will ever again.

It is interesting the whole "behind the scenes feedback" function.

I had a poster going on and on at me about my opinion I had posted a few days ago, yet I had over 60 positive feedback acknowledgements for the statement that poster had taken issue with. I wasn't really sure if it was the right thing to mention that, but I did think the poster might have kept quiet had she realised there was such a strong tide of opposition to her view, and it made me wonder if the threads don't in fact work better when everyone can see the totality of interaction on the issue.

So, if we can’t have the laugh reaction back and are expected to quote the post with a laugh emoji as the response, can we have a function where you can bookmark and quote a post but then be able to go straight back to that post. A ‘go back to last bookmark’ type thing?

That would be useful for other reasons too, not just to be able to show you found something funny.

I agree.
and only the thanks one works on the app anyway, so the reactions have been a negative for me anyway versus people just posting if they found something funny or helpful or whatever. The latter doesn’t require everyone to acknowledge a good post.

I know why they did it. I still think it's ridiculous though.

I never complained about it, but on certain boards if you expressed a non-sex positive/sex work is work perspective people used it to imply that you were stupid (and old-fashioned). I think we could do with a smiley face to say that's amusing in a nice way - but I doubt we'll get it because it will be used to put down people with unpopular/unfashionable opinions.

I think there is a case for none of them to be private - though agreeing is probably less problematic than laughing at someone.

I sometimes wonder what levels of feedback people actually get!

It was being used to ridicule posters by laughing at their contributions when it was clear there was nothing remotely amusing about the post.

The reason it was taken away was it allowed this kind of ridicule to take place behind closed doors, as it were, ie; without being brave enough to say it in front of other posters.

If you find something funny, I don't know what is wrong with quoting and posting 😂. That way everyone shares in the amusement. Laughing doesn't need to be done privately unless you are a bit ashamed at some level to be laughing at it.

Perhaps MN should just give up on the idea of these emoji reactions being secret.It is a bit weird. Like being in a pub and quietly collaring someone on the way to the toilet to whisper that you liked something they said back at the bar.

I know why MN did it this way. Users have historically moaned about the 'popularity contest' of public likes. But the correct response to the would just be not having a 'like' function (which is essentially what all these little reactions are). at all. We could just, you know, say that we enjoyed such and such a comment.

There would be more space for such words if threads weren't overstuffed with stupid pointless quoting of earlier replies. If a quote is needed, just C&P the relevant words.

TLDR: Lets go back to MN of the 00s.

I, quite clearly didn’t tell other women how to react to anything, don’t make things up. I spoke for myself and my own situation as is my right to do, and that, at least, is permitted, even if the laughing emoji is not.

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Well good for you it didn't bother you, you don't get to tell other woman that they shouldn't give a hoot at someone laughing at their baby loss in a deliberate "I don't like you so I'm gonna do this" way. The whole point of the private reaction is that's it not possible for other posters to moderate it at all. Given how it was used by A LOT of posters given it had so many complaints, there's just not a good reason why a private laugh reaction is needed on a discussion board. If you find it funny, join the discussion and say so or just laugh to yourself? No one really needs a pat on the back for a joke, and it's just not worth it when it's not how it was being used.

I did receive it. On posts about my autistic child. I couldn’t give less of a hoot tbh. And I noted that it was the same names doing it over again - I actually called one of them out for it. I think “whole class punishments” are inappropriate on a site for adults/parent and had it been left alone then the posters on the site would have overall moderated it till in time until it became Not The Done Thing and a handy guide to who the spiteful arseholes were.

Maybe if you received it on posts of your baby loss you'd see why MN removed it. It wasn't being used by one or two posters, if you looked on site stuff you'd see many posters were receiving this cowardly type of bullying from people. It takes more balls to publicly mock people's stories of loss or assault. I don't think being upset at someone cowardly laughing at people's personal experiences makes someone not an adult.