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Do you ever change your AIBU vote when there is more info from the OP?

19 replies

VinterKvinna · 07/03/2021 18:52

So OP posts something along the lines of

AIBU to get annoyed with my MIL who let's my pfb have orange juice?

Votes go to YABU

Dripfeed
She also gives them vodka in it..

Change to YANBU

OP posts:
Nutrigrainygoodness · 07/03/2021 18:55

Need more info OP.
What kind of vodka? Supermarkets own or Grey Goose?

BertieBotts · 07/03/2021 18:56

Yes - but it makes the voting skewy because some people only read the OP.

VinterKvinna · 07/03/2021 18:57

@Nutrigrainygoodness

Need more info OP. What kind of vodka? Supermarkets own or Grey Goose?
Oh ffs, it took me long enough to come up with something that wasn't a TAAT!!

Supermarket bargain basement vodka, closer to antifreeze

OP posts:
Hellodarknessmyoldpal · 07/03/2021 18:57

Is she letting them have vodka before lunch time though? Definitely wouldn't be suitable on an empty stomach so maybe suggest she waits until after nap time.

thecatfromjapan · 07/03/2021 18:58

How does the voting thing work?

I haven't been able to find it ...

dinosforall · 07/03/2021 19:01

Nah, not going to reward dripfeeding (or invested enough).

Changechangychange · 07/03/2021 19:03

Do I change my opinion! Sometimes. Do I schlepp back and change my vote? Fuck no, the poster should have put that upfront if they were that bothered (I’m never totally convinced those “thread isn’t going how I want it to” drip feeds are truthful).

Nutrigrainygoodness · 07/03/2021 19:14

Ahh see now YANBU. Can't be drinking that stuff 🤮. Thanks for clearing that up 😁

BaggoMcoys · 07/03/2021 19:16

@thecatfromjapan

How does the voting thing work?

I haven't been able to find it ...

It shows up on the top of a thread under the op for me. Two big purple buttons saying yabu and yanbu. If you click one and want to change, you just click the other. It might be different if you're using the app but I think it's the way I've described both on desktop and on Chrome on mobile (or it is for me).
VinterKvinna · 07/03/2021 22:53

@thecatfromjapan

How does the voting thing work?

I haven't been able to find it ...

Like this
Do you ever change your AIBU vote when there is more info from the OP?
OP posts:
thecatfromjapan · 08/03/2021 14:39

Thank you. 🙂

BertieBotts · 08/03/2021 14:49

I couldn't see the results of my own poll when I did an AIBU either. Maybe worth a post in Site Stuff!

BrotherlyLove · 08/03/2021 14:50

I thought you couldn't change it?

DramaAlpaca · 08/03/2021 14:52

I'm fairly sure that your first vote is the only one that counts.

It does say that you only get one vote.

VettiyaIruken · 08/03/2021 14:54

Drip feeding gets an automatic YABU from me, regardless who's right.

Hidinginstaircupboard · 08/03/2021 15:02

Yes
As I'm on the app I don't get the voting tabs

But it's often annoying when we get a drip feed that changes the whole context. Usually it goes from yabu to yanbu ... I sometimes wonder if the update is quite as accurate as it could be

But mostly I get annoyed when the OP is vague and cryptic missing out key information at the start that they expect to be guessed at. Those threads wane very quickly...

Sometimes the drip feed is actually genuine and helping op to think it through. It's very hard to know which it is, but in the whole I think I can spot when it might be real development and when it is a bit of bunkum

BertieBotts · 08/03/2021 15:47

You can change it as many times as you like - you can see it immediately affect the percentages.

When it says you can only vote once I think it means if you click on YABU twice it wouldn't register as two votes.

However I find if I vote on mobile and then view the thread on desktop (or vice versa) it looks as though I haven't yet voted and could vote again.

EmmaGrundyForPM · 08/03/2021 15:52

I never knew I could change my vote! HOW did I not know that??? It says you only get one vote so I've never tried to change it.

Yes, it's really annoying if you're on a thread early on, vote on the info given and then the OP comes and adds more info that changes the situation. Now I know what to do when that happens 🤣

StillCoughingandLaughing · 08/03/2021 15:53

Never mind the vodka - does she know how much SUGAR is in orange juice?! I won’t even give my little darlings water in a glass that has ever contained that tooth-rotting poison!

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