Using AIBU purely for the vote function but no actual AIBU...

[Sparklingbrook]

Is it time to have a separate topic with a poll or vote function?

More and more threads started with no AIBU whatsoever but wanting posters to vote using the two options. Not sure if they even want any comments at all.

It is akin to a like button imo instead of Using Your Words

AIBU is now the fuckit bucket. Best avoided. impossible!!

It is. I don’t know why people just want yes/no answers either. It’s MN Talk not MN Vote.

Late to the party, but I raised exactly this issue a while ago (which is how I came to be in Site Stuff, looking for my thread, when I found this one!)

It's annoying when people wind their posts into knots just so that they can force a poll in. It's bad enough when posts aren't AIBU ones anyway!

here is my thread

I wonder if @MNHQ have had time to consider it yet? Or has it just gone on the slush pile like so many other Site Stuff threads seem to?

Yeah it is a bit irritating. My hackles go up a bit when the buttons are assigned to a choice more than it should.

Or you could just hide the thread and move on. Isn't that your usual "advice" to others, OP?

@HmmmISee

Or you could just hide the thread and move on. Isn't that your usual "advice" to others, OP?

It's not a thread is it?

AIBU needs to have its name changed to "for traffic" as it is no longer serving its original purpose. The voting thing has just made it worse.

And the need for that little snide post @HmmmISeepost was ... ?

Sorry @HmmmISee - no idea why 'post' got tagged on the end of your name.

And the need to address a post that wasn't directed at you with your own little post is...?

@HmmmISee

And the need to address a post that wasn't directed at you with your own little post is...?

You know you can just hide the thread if it doesn't interest you, right?

Last post wasn't to you, Soup. It was for Biwi.

But, yes I can hide the thread however I'm not complaining about it. I'm also not the one complaining about threads, then telling others to hide threads when they complain about threads.
Practice what you preach and all that.

Forgot you all come in one set though, so the "jump-ins" isn't unexpected.

Oh yes. The famous bat signal

Don't be daft.

And, last time I checked, we were all allowed to comment on each other's posts. I wanted to know why you felt the need to be so snide to @Sparklingbrook.

Can I ask....

I don't have the YAIBU/YANBU "Buttons"

Im using my phone though, is this perhaps why?

thank you

Because I'm allowed to comment on a thread as you are. You call it snide, not my problem.

Why the @ ing of your friend though? I'm sure she'll see it when she finds her way back. There was no need for that or can't you wait for her to join and give you a pat on the back? 🤣Goodness, the playground antics is tiresome.

Right. I only meant to post here once. Spark and I have a little history and it was meant to be tongue in cheek. She's good at replying in the same manner so I doubt she needs your help. Down with the pitchforks.

@Sparklingbrook
@Biwi
@Soupdragon

Hello you lovelies.
Nothing to add to the thread, just thought I'd make @HmmmISee's blood pressure rise.

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Oo er! Another one. You succeeded, I'm calling the ambulance as I wri