To ask if you have noticed

[AmazingGreatAunt]

that there is no "disagree" or "disapprove" option on the react symbol?

Well no there isn’t, because too many people on here are arseholes.

We couldn’t even keep the “funny/laughing” reaction because knobheads were using it to bully posters when they shared something sad or tragic or vulnerable by laugh reacting to it. For example, laugh reacting to someone’s story about rape/SA. They’d also follow users around and laugh react to every single one of their posts.

Negative reactions can discourage people from posting and MN doesn’t want that.

There should be laugh and disagree emojis and we should also be able to see the reactions. If a laugh emoji is enough to put someone off posting they really shouldn't be online at all.

No, the people who should be offline are the assholes who put laugh reacts on posts about suicide and abuse.

Perhaps because if you fully agree there's often nothing substantive to add besides "yes" or "exactly!" or "me too", whereas a disagreement would ideally be supported by a specific reason, evidence, counterclaim, rebuttal, etc?

You can't change how other people behave. At all. Getting het up about it won't matter at all, calling people arseholes and other names changes nothing. Of course people "should not" laugh at suicide posts. But they still will.

The internet will never change because you are offended by it.

So, the only thing you can do is toughen up or stay offline. Those are literally your only choices.

Not being able to see an emoji means nothing, helps nothing.

People can still laugh at you in a quote post of course. 😅- case in point.

FS is that what happened. This is why we can't have nice things 😔

The real difference is you putting a laugh emoji in a post is something everyone else can see.

The react things on here are private. Someone is suicidal and some knob does a laugh react. Only the suicidal person can see it. It is personal and it is an attack.
I also do not buy into this thing about avoiding the interent if you are unwell. Sometimes, all some people have is the internet.

Then simply make it visible to everyone who has posted a laugh emoji. The react emojis here should never have been private. Everything should be public and you should be able to see who posted what. The likes, flowers and hearts should not be private either.

The internet is not going to change, no matter how much people wish it would. I see vicious comments on here all the time, vituperative nasty cows who think because they don't swear and are upple middle class about their sneering nobody sees who they are. You can imagine the vicious little smile as they type "Are you quite well dear? Do you need a lie down?" and all the other mumsnet favourite flying monkeys snark.

There is no difference at all between the nasty little digs which are fully endorsed by mumsnet and a laugh emoji. If the internet is too much for a person, they need to stay off the internet, because while it certainly "should" be a nicer place, it's not going to be.

Second post in and you have already turned the thread into yet another one complaining about the laugh emoji being removed!

The subject has been done to death.
The laugh emoji was an experiment that failed because of the nasty behaviour of some posters and MN did exactly the right thing taking it away.

And I agree with pp that disagreement shoukd be verbalise rather than posters just using another emoji with the very real potential of being misused.

That's because people like me would wear that button out so fast and it would be used on me, in the same way, so best to leave things as they are, IMO.

So people can say not nice things in threads and that is all fine for a person with issues but a reaction picture is worse?

@PollyBell probably not worse but gives the option to bully in private if that’s your thing (not YOUR thing btw)

What is the reason mumsnet made the reactions private? Does anyone know?
I think they should be public and then everyone would see if someone was being an arsehole to a vulnerable poster. It would probably put most of them off doing it if they knew it could be seen.

I'm fairly new here but I was a bit surprised about this too..it's something I would have expected.. perhaps it was used too negatively. Not sure

People who are nasty on threads often get shamed by others and reported.

Probably because it would turn into a popularity contest.
Pretty much the way Reddit is with the upvoting/downvoting.