Page 5 | What's one feature you would like MN to have?

Whinge · 2023-08-03T08:06:11+00:00

I know MN is a clunky and simple forum and many love it for that reason, but I was wondering if you could add any feature what would it be? Recently i've been using a forum with undo / redo buttons and it's such a useful addition that every time I delete a part of a post on MN I find myself wishing they had a similar feature.

SweetBirdsong · 03/08/2023 23:08

gamerchick · 03/08/2023 21:33

I'd happily never have an edit button if it means never having a like button. It's a discussion forum, use your words. Or go to Facebook.

Reddit layout is bloody awful. Go there if you want it to look like that.

I'd also like to be able to report obvious spam posts so you dont have to scroll forever to get to the bottom though.

I agree with this 100% ... Definitely no to a like button. It creates favouritism and cliques- and it makes it look like if two people are having an argument that the 1 person is definitely correct if they have more 'likes.' (Even if they are not correct, or it's just their opinion....) If they've got, say, 23 'likes' and the other one has only got 4, it creates a horrible feeling of hostility for the one with less 'likes.'

Reddit has got 'likes' and I absolutely hate it.

I hate the stupid 'downvote' system there too, because if people have a problem with a particular poster, they downvote everything they say, Nasty and cliquey, and makes people feel powerful and smug and popular. In reality, they are often secretly loathed by many.

RestingMurderousFace · 03/08/2023 23:11

Ability to edit.

BlossomCloud · 03/08/2023 23:12

SweetBirdsong · 03/08/2023 23:08

I agree with this 100% ... Definitely no to a like button. It creates favouritism and cliques- and it makes it look like if two people are having an argument that the 1 person is definitely correct if they have more 'likes.' (Even if they are not correct, or it's just their opinion....) If they've got, say, 23 'likes' and the other one has only got 4, it creates a horrible feeling of hostility for the one with less 'likes.'

Reddit has got 'likes' and I absolutely hate it.

I hate the stupid 'downvote' system there too, because if people have a problem with a particular poster, they downvote everything they say, Nasty and cliquey, and makes people feel powerful and smug and popular. In reality, they are often secretly loathed by many.

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I'd like this answer, if I could

ShakeYourFeathers · 03/08/2023 23:28

Editing of posts
Like button
Search function is awful. You search for something and the first post is because the key word is a username of someone from 2008. Not the interesting looking but didn't have time to read and stupidly didn't click watch thread on from 2 hours ago.

DrSbaitso · 03/08/2023 23:31

SweetBirdsong · 03/08/2023 23:08

I agree with this 100% ... Definitely no to a like button. It creates favouritism and cliques- and it makes it look like if two people are having an argument that the 1 person is definitely correct if they have more 'likes.' (Even if they are not correct, or it's just their opinion....) If they've got, say, 23 'likes' and the other one has only got 4, it creates a horrible feeling of hostility for the one with less 'likes.'

Reddit has got 'likes' and I absolutely hate it.

I hate the stupid 'downvote' system there too, because if people have a problem with a particular poster, they downvote everything they say, Nasty and cliquey, and makes people feel powerful and smug and popular. In reality, they are often secretly loathed by many.

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it makes it look like if two people are having an argument that the 1 person is definitely correct if they have more 'likes.'

But doesn't the poll option essentially do the same thing?

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 03/08/2023 23:37

I'd like this answer, if I could

I wouldn't; but I would like your liking of it, were that possible

SweetBirdsong · 03/08/2023 23:39

BlossomCloud · 03/08/2023 23:12

I'd like this answer, if I could

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SweetBirdsong · 03/08/2023 23:41

DrSbaitso · 03/08/2023 23:31

it makes it look like if two people are having an argument that the 1 person is definitely correct if they have more 'likes.'

But doesn't the poll option essentially do the same thing?

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No. Because a poll is not 2 people arguing against a certain point, and people siding with one. It's just one person asking AIBU? And everyone voting YANBU or AIBU.

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 04/08/2023 00:08

it makes it look like if two people are having an argument that the 1 person is definitely correct if they have more 'likes.'

Yes, I agree. It's also potentially very reductive as, currently, people (usually) consider everything that a poster has said before deciding to engage and respond to their post - maybe along the lines of "I think X is madness, but I DO agree with you that Y...".

If it's effectively just a mark of 'do you like this poster or not', it ceases to be a mature grown-up discussion forum and just reverts back to the school bike sheds. Some posters (posting in good faith; not trolls) DO indeed have a lot of very 'unpopular' opinions; however, even a broken watch is right twice a day and I think it's much healthier for everybody to strongly disagree with their OPINIONS (giving reasons) rather than it perceivably turning into an ad hominem attack. Even with some of the people with quite frankly disturbing opinions, we should be better than that.

Plus, there was one thread recently (still going, just about - something about swimming) where one poster came on with what most people saw as 'naive' ideas about the motives of some TRAs. It would have been so easy for everybody to just give her one of those tiresome biscuits and 'dislike' her to oblivion; but she willingly engaged and patiently learned from the thread, and it gave her genuine cause to properly consider a number of crucial factors that had previously passed her by (as they have the majority of the population) - ending with her choosing of her own volition to have quite a big rethink about how she viewed the whole matter. That's MN at its very best; nobody needs the cliquey mean-girling that crops up on occasion, which would risk being greatly exacerbated by introducing Likes and Dislikes.

tempnmchg · 04/08/2023 00:16

Reddit has got 'likes' and I absolutely hate it.

I hate the stupid 'downvote' system there too, because if people have a problem with a particular poster, they downvote everything they say, Nasty and cliquey, and makes people feel powerful and smug and popular. In reality, they are often secretly loathed by many.

True 👏🏻👏🏻

At least with Reddit you can report persistent down voters for vote manipulation. That wouldn't work on Mumsnet.

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 04/08/2023 00:59

Does it work completely the other way on NetHuns?!

"Yes, I know she was a bit of a poo-poo head when she said that Hitler was probably just very misunderstood and was basically a thoroughly decent sort; but I'm sure she luffs her ickle bubbas to the moon and back and she really means well, so it's a big upvote from me!!"

coxesorangepippin · 04/08/2023 01:19

Fewer ads at the moment

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And I'm sick of all these surveys they want us to complete: 'what makes you click on a thread??'.

Surely they already have the thread traffic count???

UpToMyElbowsInDiapers · 04/08/2023 01:21

DappledThings · 03/08/2023 10:56

The Reply option to actually do something. People use it thinking it replies to that post but it doesn't, it just creates a new post so there are threads full of comments which appear to be responding to another poster but without quoting them so it makes no sense.

YES, THIS!

stayathomer · 04/08/2023 03:11

Surely if we edit them we can change the overall tone of our answer and then people who replied to us aren’t replying to what we said iykwim? For me it’s the ability to see where on a thread we posted so we can only read replies following on from where we left off!!

stayathomer · 04/08/2023 03:12

Another against likes btw, I think some people will read too much into them

EvenlyDetermined · 04/08/2023 07:00

Does it only work if you don't use any bookmarks on the thread? If so what's the point in the bookmark feature?

I use bookmarks in threads I'm reading but not posting on, and don't use them on threads where I have posted, these do revert to the last post I read when I click on the title in TIO (mobile and desktop versions, I don't use the app).

whatsappdoc · 04/08/2023 08:23

Different coloured thread title or flashing button if the opening post was more than a year ago. Then we wouldn't spend hours reading zombie threads without realising.

LlynTegid · 04/08/2023 08:28

Ability to correct typing mistakes, even if just for 60 seconds.

Original poster

Whinge · 04/08/2023 08:39

stayathomer · 04/08/2023 03:11

Surely if we edit them we can change the overall tone of our answer and then people who replied to us aren’t replying to what we said iykwim? For me it’s the ability to see where on a thread we posted so we can only read replies following on from where we left off!!

People say this all the time as a reason against an edit feature, but the majority of other forums allow editing and don't seem to have this problem.

They allow a limited time to edit posts and also usually have a message saying the post has been edited, so it would be clear that the replies are referencing the post pre editing.

Different coloured thread title or flashing button if the opening post was more than a year ago. Then we wouldn't spend hours reading zombie threads without realising.

I'm still not sure why threads are open years and even decades later. Just lock the thread to replies unless you are the creator of the thread. That way they can post an update if they wish, and posters will still be able to benefit from the informaion but won't be able to bump a thread from 10 years ago.

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