Why has the 'funny' reaction gone???

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I always react 'funny' to funny comments, as there are a lot of comedians on this site, why has this been removed? Any ideas? Are we happy about this?
Question, should the 'funny' reaction come back? Or AIBU To want light humour?

I wouldn't. Visible reacts would instantly create popularity contests.

I'm sorry the 😂button's gone, too.

What do you mean by "chronically oversensitive"? Are you talking about people who actually are sensitive and are genuinely upset by being mocked, or are you saying that there are people who aren't actually upset by it but are objecting anyway (what is usually referred to as "pearl clutching")?

Having visible likes just encourages people to perform for likes. It also discourages people from disagreeing to heavily liked points of view.

This is a really, really good point @OooPourUsACupLove.

I hadn't given it much thought before but yes, I can totally see that visible likes would stifle unique or marginal viewpoints.

That scenario would be hard to communicate effectively in any single reaction but is an ideal situation to say something constructive and bridge-building like "I don't agree with you but that was genuinely funny, thank you for lightening the mood".

That is exactly my intention when I have done that.

Sometimes the nasty people believe they are the goodies, especially on the political forums.

If a person has convinced themselves everyone who thinks differently to them is "a Nazi" they certainly aren't going to feel bad about being nasty to them. In fact they probably feel it would be wrong not to!

I agree with you

Ha ha I know those people!! It's hard to ignore morons sometimes especially when they are so consistent in their moronaties!

The laugh emoji was here for such a short time I’m sure everyone will revert to what they did before without any difficulty.

I don’t agree that making it public would be a popularity contest because you’re either funny or you’re not!

I’m pretty sure I used it yesterday when a poster was describing a collective sing along to an explicit song whilst on a terrible holiday. There was no other emoji suitable for that story 😂

Whinging little cry babies complained.

They certainly are now.

If you aren’t ashamed of the way you use it. I can’t see it matters: just post an emoji.

Except MNHQ know exactly who the culprits were!

I still don't blame them forgetting rid of it though to avoid all the reports!

😂

nah. People who didn’t like cowardly bullies complained.
theres plenty of ways to respond to posts you enjoy without the daft gurning emoji.

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