Reactions are here - update from MNHQ

[KatyMumsnet]

We’ve listened to your feedback! While many of you have enjoyed the ‘Thanks’ button, you also told us that you'd love more ways to express your feelings on the site.

Starting today, you now have the choice of four reactions:
‘Agree’, ‘Love’, ‘Funny’, and ‘Thanks’.

Here’s how it works:

• Select the ‘React’ button underneath the OP or reply.
• Choose the reaction that reflects how you feel about the post.
• Reactions are private and are only visible to the post owner.
• You can select one reaction per post.

We hope this gives you even more ways to engage with posts and share how you feel.

Let us know your thoughts or any questions in the comments below!

This. ^ Not sure how I feel about this sorry @KatyMumsnet The 'thanks' choice has gone too hasn't it?

How come this has happened? I never saw anyone asking for it.

Nothatgingerpirate
Noticed in another thread, comments that didn't express direct support to the OP or take their side got deleted.
(A guy whose girlfriend got physical under influence).

There are ways and ways of disagreeing with an OP. Some are simply nasty, or offensive for any number of reasons, and need to be removed.

please can someone react to this post, just so I can see what happens.
thanks

Thanks is still there, I have just thanked your post.

Been here on and off for over 15 years and I like them. I do love an emoji though.

I didn’t say that - you are misquoting me but seeing as you ask, rarely and yes

thanks you . I like it.

I didn’t ask for it and don’t appreciate the new feature. The thanks wasn’t wanted either but wasn’t too intrusive. This is Facebook.

The hands is “thanks”, thumbs up is “agree”, heart is “love” and laughing face is “funny” - those are the words that come up if you hold your finger over the images. I don’t see them otherwise.

Yeah. I don't like it. The thanks was okay, and a mature way to show appreciation. But the applause emoji expresses something quite different, and the rest is just juvenile FB stuff.

Yeah but now you can laugh at someone in private, and no-one will know so can't stand up for the person being laughed at.

It could be a way to be a bully online with no-one else knowing.

@Nothatgingerpirate this site tends to be self policing - replies which are offensive or personal attacks are removed, although several posters regularly skate close to the edge, pushing their luck and demolishing boundaries

Agree.

@SabreIsMyFave thanks is still there, it's the first option. We've had a lot of feedback since we launched thanks asking for more reactions!

@KatyMumsnet please please please give me an easy way to not see these. I'm horrified to see that even 'thanks' left on the old system now appear as bright blue blobs. Let those of us who can't cope with that, opt out of getting them (and of seeing the old ones).

The only deleted one I can see is one that clearly called the OP an arsehole when he was the won who was assaulted. Presumably deleted for classic victim blaming.

Presumably.
Thanks.

I agree.

@saraclara yes - I sent a text message to my daughter who disagreed
with what I said and was forthright about it.
Then followed it up with the clapping hands.
I saw this for what it was, an insolent gesture.
Obviously I dealt with it as a mother.

However if I made an innocuous comment say and received clapping hands
from someone purporting to be my equal on here, I would not be best pleased
and would say so. Juvenile FB stuff is correct.
We can indeed see who has sent one of these ghastly emojis - Ive sent a couple myself just now, but you know, we say, if it works don’t fix it.

What I dread is remark and feedback degenerating into a DM type quagmire.

This is a you problem, assigning intent to a reaction.
Maybe someone was testing out the reactions....

They’re the wrong emojis for MN culture. It should be

thanks
agree
love - like sympathy or hugs
funny

Ah ha, yes it's the clapping emoji. Ta muchly!

If we can't opt out, can we have the option of seeing the reaction as a word (in the same colour as the rest of the text) not as a coloured image, Since MN knows what the blobs are meant to mean, a simple direct translation to that word should be straightforward.

But coloured blobs appearing without any choice are downright evil.

I thought the argument about imposing coloured emojis on message board users who need clarity and accessibility had been fought and won about 20 years ago - amazed to see it surfacing again now.

Sorry!! I Misquoted - apologies!

Your wish is my command. I put a 😆