ADD A 'LIKE' BUTTON MUMSNET!!!

[schoolsgettingonmynerves]

Some of the responses to posts are hilarious and I just want to show that person that I agree!

Come on mumsnet team it's a no brainer!

Add the word 'agree' if you'd like to see that! (See if there was a like button it would be soooo much easier...)

^^ what Celibacy said

The "slippery slope" is a logical fallacy and there isn't any real risk of glittery tickers being the next step if anything ever changes.

like button threads are regular occurences.

glittery ticker threads are not. Don't actually remember ever seeing one. Plus no running this site would risk what MNers would exploit them to count as an act of revenge for their introduction.

MN could do a trial run of "I agree" for example without opening the floodgates to unicorn farts squirting glitter all over the boards.

Change isn't usually welcome anywhere, but I'm not sure MN can stand still and always keep everything the same willy nilly. Forums that do that die. Maybe not tommorow, maybe not next week, but generally speaking forums that remain static in terms of interactivity tend to stagnate. They fail to attract new posters to replace the outgoing, exisiting posters dominate... and it all gets stale, repetative and no fun anymore.

MN has done really well in terms of holding and building on its position considering how little fiddling they do with the format. I suspect in good part becuase the "realationship" between posters and Da Management is unique. Which is great. But I am not sure that alone can future proof the site from dwindle and die syndrome.

YES!

Absolutely not.

How many fucking times do we need to repeat that we don't want a like button.

A bullshit button, I could possibly be persuaded, but a like button on MN
would be all wrong.

YES

What mammuzza said

The trolls would have a field day with a like button - it'd be a blood bath, I tell ya.

Btw OP, you are not really allowed to call other posters cunts on here - that would be a personal attack. You are allowed to swear though. Cos we're all old snobby cows grown-ups.

Zombie says no, thank you.

Whay the "Yes" campaign seem to be missing is, we in the "No" campaign are quite happy to embrace modern technology etc (majority use Facebook and Twitter afterall, some even use....Netmums ) so that isn't our argument.

We are actually against encouraging a popularity contest and encouraging goady fuckers going in a "Like" harvest.

Mumsnet will not go stagnant because it has always attracted members with a no-nonesense, no bullshit agenda.

It has attracted a lot of new people in the last year who enjoyed the warts and all feel to the site.

Now however, the new blood (and some old timer too admittedly) want to change what Mumsnet is.

Text speak
Kisses
Like button
Hunninh
Loling

Call a cunt a cunt and be done with it ffs

What exactly could be the effect of a troll clicking on a 'like' or 'I agree' button though?
That one post would get a 1million 'I agree' and ??? I'm sure that compare to others more normal numbers, it looks obviously stupid.

No the troll thing would be the other way around probably-it's about getting the likes. Post something trolly-get loads of likes. Result!

As I said, I've been through this transition. Everyone hated the idea. Hated it. Same objections as on here but actually they would be up in arms if someone suggested getting rid of them. It doesn't kill conversation as people still want to add their little bit.

If you are so confident that likes are not for mumsnet you have nothing to fear from a trial....

The effect would be a load of dicks coming on just to 'like' nasty troll posts, turning MN into some weird version of the DM comments section

Basically, Like buttons are just stupid. It is dumbing down imo, and not suited to MN at all.

I think possibly a YABU/YANBU button on AIBU might be ok. But that's it

But please no buttons on FWR or relationships, or any of the other sensitive forums. And no quote button either, please.

I actually like mumsnet as it is.

I got accused of being a troll for starting this thread you have to laugh. A trial really wouldn't kill mumsnet ... Or would it?

But, waffly, there's a wish list of features a mile long that posters do want but that Tech doesn't have time to get round to. Why spend valuable Tech-hours on trialling something that the majority doesn't want?

Where did you get accused of being a troll?

No.

No.

Tortoise, that is not people's objection to having a like button is it?

I would like a post quote function first.

Post something trolly-get loads of likes. Result!

That is a valid point.

However an embargo on an "I agree" button is not the only solution.

If posters have a limited number of "I agrees" to spend, (and personally I'd keep it as low as five per 24 hour period to be on the safe side), exploitation of the feature is vastly curtailed.

Making it possible to view who spent their "agrees" under a secific post with a swift click should stop people using it to supoort views they'd rather weren't publically attached to their username. In a sort of "stand up and be counted" sort of way.

If the above is not overly complicated codewise (is tech is hyperventiliting as we speak? ), a trial run of it could put the whole like button thing to bed for obce and for all, one way or another.

a quote button would be really handy. So when somebody says 'I agree with such and such' you don't have to go back PAGES because you want to know what they said.

a like button would be as bad as rep IMO.

I vote no. It's enough like a primary school playground sometimes without that adding to it.

I think the FO2FB (Fuck Off To Facebook) button has its merits, though.

I doubt anyone is afraid of a trial. Fear of anything on MN is a bit unnecessary.

But MNHQ would presumably want a bit more enthusiasm in favour of it to run a trial?