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...)

[Fav]

I'm not hating on netmums, but one of the reasons I like it here is because, well, it's not like netmums. Personal preference.

Add a like button and it's a slippery slope to avatars and sparkly tickers.
Please not on mn.

[Heathcliff27]

Theres a simple solution, if theres a like button and you don't want to use it then..well..don't.

Sometimes I do see a post that made me chuckle but with the speed of some threads, adding a post stating my delight goes unseen or makes no sense as the post was miles back up the list. Would I use a like button? Who knows?

[Sparklingbrook]

It's nothing to do with being afraid of change.

And who is hating newbies?

[Heathcliff27]

And i'm not a newbie either btw

[Sparklingbrook]

Not every online forum has to have a like button. Don't be afraid of being a bit different perhaps?

[HaroldLloyd]

Eh newbie hater?

[catinbootz]

Noooooooo. For the love of god.

[LatinForTelly]

No thanks

[Fram]

NO, No, NO!

A like button would be the last nail in the coffin of the dumbing down of MN.

Just how difficult is it to type "Great post, Fram"?

Or, y'know, actually engage in a conversation?

Hitting a 'like' button whilst staring, slack-jawed at a phone isn't contributing to an online community.

[mellicauli]

Like=needy
Like = sycophancy
No thanks

[Fram]

A 'like' button is the adult equivalent of 'barking at print'

[ophiotaurus]

A like button would be the last nail in the coffin of the dumbing down of MN

^^ this

[Fram]

Thank you, o bovine-serpenty one.

[OwlCapone]

Only the almost illiterate need a Like button.

[FruVikingessOla]

"Don't be a newbie hater"

I suspect that was aimed at my comment. I'm in no way a newbie hater - and I didn't say I was. But it does tend to be 'newer' MNers who ask for 'like' buttons.

When I joined MN a few years ago (5?) it was, sort of, a sanity-saver for me. I was struggling with many things, which I didn't discuss on here (and still haven't), but I discovered somewhere I could have a conversation, or join in a chat - completely unrelated to my problems. I think just clicking 'like' or 'dislike' would have made me feel worse.

[PortofinoRevisited]

No. 100 times No.

[Minnieisthedevilmouse]

I would like this. I don't always want to comment but do want to agree with a post. I lurk on lots where a like would make me feel part of the conversation without having to say something.

In aibu might make it friendlier. Can you just do it in certain boards? That would be good.

[Sneezecakesmum]

Too many likes might make the site crash

[Sparklingbrook]

I can't see it making AIBU friendlier. Especially if someone was snarky and horrible and got loads of likes.

[Minnieisthedevilmouse]

I don't very often put "agree with x". I'm put off by the ones sucking up to certain posters on boards " oh I luffs x. Always so witty!"

Get a room. I'd rather a button. Also a person might alter their "snippyness" to get likes. At which point some posters might change style altogether to a nicer one.

[post]

No thanks, there's enough polarisation and 'taking sides' on the site already. I come here for discussion and thought and wit, and the aibuisation has gone far enough for me. It's boring.

[TortoiseUpATreeAgain]

No.

I mean, occasionally I do fleetingly wish there were a "Like" button on certain posts, but part of what creates the MN culture is that it isn't scattered with shortcuts to written communication -- there aren't lots of emoticons (I think too many are creeping in) and there aren't "Like" buttons. On MN if you think something you're expected to put in the (admittedly pretty minimal) effort to craft a few words encapsulating your thought process, and I think that in part that's why MN discussions, on a good day, are more cogent and articulate than much of the web. I resist anything that's likely to change that.

[OwlCapone]

Also a person might alter their "snippyness" to get likes. At which point some posters might change style altogether to a nicer one.

Do you really think MNers are that shallow?

[TheHappyMonkey]

I vote no