To ask for a few changes to MN?

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I bet this has been done to death & I've just missed the party but it not...

AIBU to ask that mn gives us an equivalent of a thumbs up / like button along with a variety of short cuts to convey other emotions?

Let me explain...I've just read a post that I agree with. Instead of just being able to click on a like button, I've had to concentrate of finding out the name of the poster, type it out correctly, do all the faffy asterix things to highlight it, do the arrow thing (^) and say "this".

WTAF! I'm busy, and spend far too much time on mn as it is! .

Can't they just do buttons under the posts that we can actually click on, rather than all of the above, and actually having to type out the word "grin" within bloody square brackets!

You must get shed loads of revenue from surveys, advertisers, promotions etc, please invest some of that in making mn more efficient!

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Asterix thanks very much, asterix - you get my point!

I read a lot more threads than I comment on. Sometimes I have nothing to add but read the conversation as it's interesting.

Bit boring to read one post and then just see the likes going up and down.

Do people think Reddit and other forums don't get the same amount of discussion?

That's rubbish. It just forces people to write "this^"

There's no way to force people to have varied and interesting contributions and witty ways of expressing themselves.

Not having "like" buttons does however push people in the direction of expanding upon their thoughts and explaining why they agree with a previous poster.

If you were speaking to a friend and agreed with them you wouldn't just say "yes.".

"Is typing "this" a contribution?"

More so than just punching one button. There aren't that many posts that are as bald as that though.

Definitely not!

I post on a couple of other forums, and they have 'like' buttons, and I hate it Because when you are having a bit of an argument/debate with someone, and they get 15 'likes' and you get only 3, it smacks of 'ganging up' and almost bullying. It also makes them think they have got one up on you and they are correct, because more people seemingly agree with them!

NO 'like' button on here. No way!

An edit button would be nice though. If only for 3 minutes, so you can correct your spelling errors!

Like button would slow down discussion. At least, I certainly would post less if I could just press like on what someone else had already said.

Quote buttons are awful. On another forum I use, people will quote whole walls of text and then write "I agree" at the bottom. Or someone will quote someone who quoted someone etc. You end up with loads of repeated text which you have to continuously scroll through to find what little new content there is.

Also, it is easy to only view the OP's posts. Change your settings so that threads display entirely on one page. Then scroll through for highlighted posts, or use ctrl+F or find in page OP's username.

I think the simplicity of Mumsnet is great. My only wish is a night mode!

Fuck the 'like button' but we do need a quote function

Do understand why people may not want a like button but sometimes I would like to support someone but everything that I would have said has already been stated a dozen times by other mntrs so just for that👍

Because when you are having a bit of an argument/debate with someone, and they get 15 'likes' and you get only 3, it smacks of 'ganging up' and almost bullying.

And you know that most of them would be for established posters.

The other issue is that I have some fairly unpopular (but well thought out and evidenced) views. Here, if people want to disagree with them, they have to engage with me about them. And that either has me learning, or them learning. Rather than 'MrsTP got 500 dislikes for her weird views'.

I do wonder whether likes are one of the reasons social media are (is?) so bad for mental health.

I don't understand why MN doesn't just add them and then people who want them can use them and people who don't won't. No one will be obliged to use it.

But it would still change the nature of the site, to its detriment.

I would have less (or no) deletions, apart from that I wouldn't change anything...actually that's not true, I'd like to try it without AIBU.

When poster do ^ This they very often add their own additional comments as well.

There are loads of bright intelligent knowledgable people on here who want to talk things through.

On a slightly different subject, but still on the theme of things I'd like MN to have: often people complain when 'zombie' threads are reactivated, and new people reply in good faith for a few posts before someone points out it's a 'zombie'.

Could there be an extra column on the main page for each page that doesn't just show the last post/poster date and time, but also the starting post/poster and date? I guess I'm thinking along the same lines as digital spy.

Actually, even with active/current threads it sometimes helps (especially on very emotive/emotional threads) to see who started the thread, and then if the 'last poster' is also the person who started it, you can 'check in' on them and see if they're ok, or how their situation is going. If you've invested time/advice to that person that might matter more? (Not sure - I'm not even sure I'm explaining this very well!)

Not worried about a 'like' button, and use a laptop to read MN, so usually ok with copy/paste etc, but interesting to read that the app version can be more tricky for some things.

Not to be rude but if you wish it was redditt go and use reddit then

You do realise saying not to be rude still makes you rude? That wasnt necessary and i was giving an example of how it worked successfully, the OP asked for opinions, unless you failed to comprehend that from the post.
Geez, chill out, we arent in some kind of "cool high school girl clique"

@PumpkinLatteMyArse from my experience reddit is often seen as a bad word on mumsnet 😂

I haven't seen a zombie thread resurrected for a while.

My Active page (on laptop) shows who started the thread and the date.

Please no to an edit function. What would be the point of leaving a post open to editing, even for a minute? On fast moving threads the responses would all be to the original post, so with an edit EVERYONE would then have to go back and amend their responses. Just take a minute to read through before you post rather than banging send in a complete froth.

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What would be the point of leaving a post open to editing, even for a minute?

It gives people a chance to correct bad typos or add to their post. Considering you get proper grammar nazis on here, itd be a good thing!

So in that minute, someone who wrote "my husband hit me" which people respond to, can go back and change it to " my husband didn't hit me" - leaving all the responses making no sense.

I would love to be able to come back to a thread where I left it. It's the norm on the other forums I visit, but MN needs it even more, as the threads are so much longer.

MN is extremely clunky compared to most. And yes, a quote button! It's hardly new technology!

When people complain about PC I always wonder what they want to say that moderation prevents them from saying.

I also hate how if you search for a user, it shows you the threat title and recent posts but you cant navigate to their exact post without having to scroll through pages of the thread looked for their user name.

There's a preview function that you can use if you're worried about typos. No need for an edit function.

"I would love to be able to come back to a thread where I left it. It's the norm on the other forums I visit, but MN needs it even more, as the threads are so much longer."

That's what the bookmark function is for!

YY the bookmark function is great. Straight back to where you were.