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!!

[SunnilyEnough]

A "like" button has nothing in common with a ticker.

I'd prefer to click on "like" than have to write "lol" or put in an idiotic smiley face (sorry, I know MNers love them, but they're much more in tickers/NetMums league than a like button).

It works well here, I think.

[SunnilyEnough]

nightshade I agree with you!

[WhereTheWildThingsWere]

AAARGGH.

Feck it then, just give us tickers so we can let the whole world know how long we have been babydancing with hubby to make a new lovely little bubba.

[BertieBotts]

But what's the point of a feature like "like" if not everyone opts in to it?

Big no from me as well. Honestly every site I've been on with "likes" or "+1" or "thumbs up/down" the "like" system has turned into a popularity contest or a bunfight. Even whether or not to have it anonymous is a loaded question. If you can see who has "liked" what then people take it personally. If it's anonymous you get a lot more weight added to bullying posts if people agree via "like" but would be too chicken to say under any posting name. Especially for troll-hunting.

What's wrong with posting "I agree with XYZ"?

[WhereTheWildThingsWere]

SunnilyEnough wff is that forum 'I would be an amazing wife if.......' ?????

[SunnilyEnough]

Why the constant tickers reference? Has nothing to do with it. Tickers are webdesign circa 1996, babydancing with hubby is a vernacular particular to babycenter and netmums etc., a like button is an aspect of web 2.0.

[BertieBotts]

Sunnily that forum has threaded discussions, agree that "like" type things work well in that kind of format. But I think they would be silly on something like this which is more linear and can be fast moving.

[SunnilyEnough]

It's an American, primarily NYC forum.

[BertieBotts]

The one where posters are attacking another poster for her DD asking for a cookie for breakfast too

[Trills]

I agree with JeremyVile.

Easy, see? :)

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MNHQ - if you have customisable like will you please remember to write the below on the options page?

"using this option will allow you to communicate with only a limited number of people, as many MNers are luddites and hate change"

[SunnilyEnough]

Youbemom is incredibly fast moving (it's still early in the States, probably no one on yet) and also works well because it's anonymous so you don't have the cult of personality thing that you have here. I do understand the concern of fawners just clicking "like" on every post their favourite MNers write.

But I do think a like button has its place and would work well here. I also like the flag option.

[nightshade]

see, i could now 'like' you sunny!!

[SunnilyEnough]

Right!

[WhereTheWildThingsWere]

Sadly 'babydancing' is not limited to netmums and the like.

Tickers are twatty.

And as GetOrf said, like buttons are the thin edge of the wedge, they are farking lazy and pointless, type something or nothing.

It is dehumanizing.

[BecauseImWorthIt]

I like this idea

[MyMelody]

i just can't see the point though, do we need to know how many people 'like' what we have said or not? if you haven't got anything to add to the convesation you don't have to post, we don't need to know how many people 'like' or not, its just all the websites i have seen it on i don't like to be honest.

mumsnet works fine how it is, if it ain't broke don't fix it!

[Itsjustafleshwound]

I don't particularly want to be able to judge others postings and I don't want others to rate what they think of my rantings and prejudices postings

MN has never been a big huggy, fluffy bunny-type place and so I don't see the need for this feature??

Hasn't tech got enough to get on with in his shed??

[nightshade]

but only 'like' your first post where you agree with me but not your second which is technically way above me, meaning, i don't 'like' everything you say!

a 'like' button would mean that i didn't have to try and explain all of this in a manner that is neither offensive or confusing, and in synch with the post!

am i making sense??

[ChuffMuffin]

No tickers? Ugh, philistines. . Not sure about the "Like" thing though.

I am however a fervant clicker of arrows on the DM site.

[ChuffMuffin]

Ooh I would like the opportunity to hide certain poster's posts though. Not ignore them, but have them auto hidden with an option to click to read them.

[nightshade]

you see, small voices 'like' it because unfortunately we sometimes can't be heard above the dominant masses.

'like' becauseimworthit.

it makes us minority feel that we have contributed in a minority type way.

[LauraIngallsWilder]

Nooooooo to like buttons, tickers or anything else 'new' on MN!

MN was better before people started treating it like a christmas tree :o

[MyMelody]

nightshade, you must speak up and be heard! not just cllick a little 'like' button and hide away!

[nightshade]

have tried speaking up, as you can see it usually results in a full onslaught about how fundamentally wrong my opinion is!!

would just like to quietly acknowledge those comments/posts that make me laugh, smile or think!

[FeelMyWraith]

I have a 4yo dd and when she's failing to communicate properly or gesticulating in lieu of expressing herself, we do that delightfully wnaky middle class thing of intoning "use your words" at her. And if she's whining we employ the equally wnaky and similarly appropriate to the Loud Parenting Brigade "you have a beautiful voice dd, please use it properly".

I feel I have to use these nobbish phrases on the 'likers'.