Please bring back the laughing emoji

[LunaTheCat]

Dear Mumsnet .. please bring this back.. I miss it heaps !

For most thats true, however, people post some quite horrendous stories, which may have taken a great deal of courage to write down, so we should MN allow some random twat to send a laughing emoji at this person?

Like i said earlier MN has done very well without the emojis.... i'm sure those who support the return of the laughing emoji will have the inner fortitude to carry on posting, if not, perhaps the internet is not for them?

Skipping in without reading the thread

Yes mumsnet... please 🙏 bring back the 🤣

Harsh.

It was a facility that was being abused. It’s not essential.

When I received them it really put me off posting again.

I used to really like it for when I found a funny comment. It was a nice way of showing appreciation for humour.

I did experience some people using it maliciously or I guess it was probably sarcastically, and it did hurt... But I guess no more than when people just write a mean comment.

I think the reason they got rid of it was valid though and not everyone can shrug off that sort of thing. There was some very meanspirited bullying with it because people thought it was basically anonymous unlike a public comment when people would tell them to stop being a dick

I really miss it as there are some really funny posters that we want to encourage to continue posting, we all need a 😂
I tried to use the clapping emoji instead but realised that meant thanks after I'd pressed it🙈

Im confused isn't this the laughing 😂 emoji?

😁 or it this?

You used it for one of my comments (under a different name), that was not remotely an insult. You must miss it.

Who made you the king or queen of the internet?

I think the posters on here who think its no big deal to be ridiculed and bullied obviously have the self confidence that many posters on MN do not.

I have about the lowest self-esteem possible, honestly. Of course I feel it when somebody does something like that. But you’re never going to take away the opportunities for the type of people who do that to behave that way. It’s just not realistic. Stopping everyone using the emoji to laugh at other people’s jokes, so that we can stop a few twats from doing this is futile, honestly. And it won’t improve self-esteem, really the best option is to turn off your notifications so you don’t realise.

Yes, but people are talking about the one that was under the react button below posts. Only the user themselves can see who has reacted, which is probably part of the problem.

It’s just different opinions isn’t it? I understand both sides but do miss the simple opportunity to show appreciation for a good joke.

And life in general!

It's up to me how I respond.
I do often report bullying posts but my laughter tells them that their insults are indeed laughable.

Maybe the MN IT dept could apply AI to the problem so that AI would be able to interpret//understand the post and the laugh emoji could only be used if the post it was applied to was appropriate I.e. it's actually funny not something awful, sad, nasty, abusive etc.

I’ve been on the receiving end loads of times (always from GC people who disagreed with me) but I’d still like it to make a comeback. I’m not so sensitive that having it used as a mocking response by a complete stranger would bother me in the slightest.

I wondered why it left. I’m sorry but it’s just an emoji I don’t get the hurt behind it.

Nobody makes you check what likes you’ve gotten you can even turn off the email that says someone’s reacted to your post if you don’t like them. It’s a choice to check it.

😂 this one?!

Am I the only one who doesn’t open the emails saying someone has reacted to my post? I may have been laughed at a hundred times and I’m oblivious.

no it can be used for bullying and the wrong reasons I’m glad it’s gone

I have all Mumsnet emails turned off/junked.

I can't believe we're on page 4 of this thread and people are still just wading in saying "urrrrgh bring it baaack" did none of you read what someone wrote near the start of the thread that someone who was suicidal and posting for help got laughed at? As one of many examples of the problem? What is wrong with some of you? Do you just not care that a human being was feeling like that and got kicked anyway? People post on MN for all sorts of reasons and it's a source of support for many. The shitheads are the people who shouldn't be on the Internet, not the people who post in good faith looking for support.

MN is a community with its own rules, people kept breaking them, MN have taken away this means of breaking talk guidelines, deal with it.

Ill sometimes scroll back to
my last post to pick up on the thread. And I saw it then.

I dont know what emojis have been used on my posts because I switched off notifications for reactions, so it’s only if I go back and check that I can see. And sometimes I’ve noticed a laughing emoji that’s clearly sarcastic. Whatever. Not a reason to get rid of it.

The answer to that is to ban the poster and remove their reactions, not remove the reaction.