can we have a 'LIKE' button on every posters post??

[nightshade]

sometimes i don't wish to comment but want to acknowledge that i like a mumsnetter's post or response. i keep going to click the like button, as on facebook but inevitably find that it is not there!!

button

I must irritate the fuck out of the pedants. I don't mean to. Just a bit thick.

Oooh
I need a

button
That happens to me all the time. Verbal gibberosity

I actually love you Paggy, you're my total favourite

I think if you are going with like buttons we should at least have a range. Especially for those of us who like nuance.

Like blogger, as many words as the screen landscape will allow for.

Technically speaking (safe in the ignorance of knowing no code) it could be done.

But perhaps best to stick to things such as "funny" "persuasive" "unconvinced" "Tone=ouch" and other not so hardcore options, rather than going for a "knobhead" button, which could get broken the first week from sheer overwork.

I vote for Pagwatch to be in charge of collating submissions and organising the vote.

In between bouts of mud wrestling.

oi back off toosoon. Join the paglove queue :o

How would MNHQ plan for it to look - Justine have you had any techy disvussions yet. What would be nice is a webchat with techy gurus so we can see what is the MNHQ preference, and we can talk to techys about what is possible, and what is not.

I think that would be a good idea - that way everyone can ask their question and the poor techys can answer.

A like button on MN will cause the end of world civilization. Governments will fall, people will spontaneously explode and Jeremy Clarkson will arise as the figurehead of the post-apocalyptic survivors who will survive on eating raw cabbage.

Fact.

Looks

One vote for text based linky thing (linky in the sense of click text/box to vote) so all I have to see under a post in VERY SMALL LETTERS WITH NO GLITTER OR ICONS is

Like(1) Persuasive (2) Funny (7) Ouch (0) Knobhead (4)

But at least one case smaller than the font size of the post.

Not that I am picky or anything.

Yer Pinot there would be a queue wouldn't there.

Oh darn it. I should've known.

toosoon :o

Nobody will suvive if all there is to eat is raw cabbage

I like Getorf's idea of a webchat with tech - if tech would be up for it! (bless)

I also like the idea of Paggy being in charge with it all, again...if she would consider it!

So... if this is going to be trialed, but there is an opt-out option, I wonder whether we'll be able to opt out from having our posts 'liked' or not. I really don't want to know how little attention I'm given but simply opting out and not knowing won't be the same as knowing that no one can (even though they wouldn't want to) [confused}?

Yes yes yes. I should be in charge of fucking everything.

Is there something I don't understand about a pag glove?

Okay, if we are going with it, I'd like to register a preference for the term "Agree/disagree with this post" (And then a counter: "X people agree with this post. Y people disagree with this post.") rather than "Like/dislike". Since this is, you know, a discussion site for sharing advice and opinions, not a showing off site for counting your likes.

Agree/disagree makes more sense and feels less moronic than empty "Like". What if someone's posting stats for DV and you want to say "Thanks for posting that"? "Like" isn't really appropriate, but "Dislike" implies disapproval.

If you're going to implement it, at least stick with the intelligent and unobtrusive style of mumsnet. Please?

(What happened to the facebook and twitter buttons anyway? I can't see them any more. Which is good because I thought they cluttered up the page Did they just quietly slip out of being when nobody used them?)

Argh. Stick with something which fits into the intelligent and unobtrusive style.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO - no like button please.

No like this idea.

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Pag are you angry at me?

at pag glove... no it's love. We just love you. We can't help it.

Roffle at Mumsnet actually going ahead with this idea after years of outraged huffing about it from posters. Not much bothered about it one way or the other myself, but I do think that being able to customise it into invisibility won't really prevent it impacting on all users. Posts will still be composed with an eye to harvesting a likefest from other users -- like answers on Question Time are so nauseatingly constructed to win a harumphing round of applause. And presumably if we hide it we will all have to cower in the knowledge that we are being "liked," or not, behind our backs.

I guess it is good on Facebook because there is nothing to do there except look at other people looking at you. And it is good on something like a newspaper comment board because the exchange and assessment of opinion, rather than the existence of a "community" is pretty much all there is. It seems a bit bad on Mumsnet because of the combination of genuine thoughtful discussion with feelings of friendship, which combination seems trivialised by "liking." And of course it will just be a nicely streamlined automated version of "who's your favourite mumsnetter".

I'm not entirely sure WHO this persistent group of pros consists of...

there's barely any of them on this thread.

While there are masses of againsts.

I have read (most) of this thread with the various arguments for and against, the carefully thought out discussions of posters.

I feel it is time to remember a MN favourite "no is a complete sentence."

Ahem . No.

Jacques, you should ask for a "deconstruct" button instead of a "like" one.

MNHQ - why don't you have a poll about it?

and about all the other requests

See the thing is if this OP had had a 'like and 'dislike' button, you would have had, Oooh, about 200 'dislike's and about 3 'like's.

UNLESS the people who haven't got time or the courage to post might have voted with their buttons. You might have got an overwhelming pro majority that way.

CS