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Voting, and over-use of AIBU

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BIWI · 07/01/2021 14:30

It drives me nuts when everything goes in AIBU 'for the traffic' - a self-fulfilling prophecy if ever there was one!

But now, people are (ab)using AIBU just so they can put a vote on their posts, so they have to have an over-complicated explanation:

YABU - if you think I should euthanise the dog
YANBU - how dare you have a dog in the first place

How about you introduce another board which is specifically asking people to vote, then (hopefully - in my dim and distant dreams) we can stop people using AIBU wrongly?

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UpShutTheFuck · 07/01/2021 16:10

I have turned off seeing the voting option (no idea how - I can't remember before anyone asks) but it's all so bloody pointless anyway.

How many time do you see posts that say "ooops, I clicked the wrong button".

Nobody cares.

LilyMumsnet · 07/01/2021 16:30

Hi BIWI

Thanks so much for the suggestion - we'll have a chat about it when time allows and see what we can do. Flowers

BIWI · 07/01/2021 16:31

... or maybe, @LilyMumsnet, you could put voting on the WWYD board?

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BIWI · 09/02/2021 06:12

So, @LilyMumsnet, has time allowed yet?!

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