to think mumsnet should have a "like" button......

[oldmum42]

like FB does, or better still, a positive/negative button like "The Student Room" does, so I can "comment" on a post with minimum effort?

Would save me loads of time :)

< throws bun >

" I do mean a mumsnet poster rating button"

Ooooh yes. Then it can be just like a popularity competition.

No no and no again.

It's getting too complicated. I just wanted the opportunity to throw the occasional bun. Never mind.

It's like on one of those other forums where there's a count of how many have viewed and how many commented, - I think that's awful if someone's posted about something important and or upsetting and it shows 100 people viewed but only 20 could be bothered to say anything useful.

All a 'like' is, is a nod really.

Just like if you were sat in a pub cafe with your friends, you'd probably nod here and there without feeling the need to add anything else.

I don't really think it would have any kind of negative effect on the board if we had a like button.

And those who agree with people simply because they're 'friends', do that anyway...just verbally at the moment.

Please please for the love of sweet baby Jesus don't turn this into a Royalty vs Frothers thread.

Or I might have to choke myself to death on MrGin's buns.

But Mumsnet Talk is a Discussion forum. Not press one button and naff off.

But...but...that is compulsory at the moment Proudnscary. Did you not get the Shitstorm Memo?

It doesn't have to be one or the other though

Clicking 'like' on the odd post doesn't mean you can't comment too

But sometimes in a fast moving thread, you don't want to comment personally to everyone so clicking it would be an acknowledgement.

Tore it up, Pagwatch

Crazy mixed up kid.

You know it

Yes, yes, yes! There should be a 'like' button as well as a 'dislike' button, maybe little red down arrows and green up arrows like on the Daily Mail website (please don't judge me for going on there, it's good for a laugh!)

MrsARCHIE says - Yes, yes, yes! There should be a 'like' button as well as a 'dislike' button, maybe little red down arrows and green up arrows like on the Daily Mail website (please don't judge me for going on there, it's good for a laugh!)

Ah now, the judgy-pants factor.... THAT's why I mentioned thestudentroom.... same green for like/red for dislike buttons idea as the DailyFail, but makes me sound dead clever

• runs away to hide from DailyFail readers

I vote NO.

NO .

It will lead to cringey arse licking for some posters - then people will start threads ' Which MNer has had the most likes ?' blah blah

Would rather the 'throw the bun' button - far more fun !

I think we should have tailored recommendations of threads. Like Amazon.

'If you enjoyed the bun fight about P&C spaces you may like the fighty thread about Disabled Toilets'. Something like that?

L I K E

Gawd no.

There is a like button, it's called 'post message'. If we don't like your posts we ignore you. HTH

No No NO.

When I joined MN I loved it's differences to other websites - no glittery tickers, no LOL and txtspk, no post count etc etc. I love the pages and pages of discussion pure and simple.

No like button, and definitely no bloody 'dislike' button - way to make someone feel like crap.

(Although it could be satisfying to 'dislike' some of the MRA trolls, it's still a NO from me.)