Mumsnet Talk

MNHQ have, over the years, very kindly created any number of different boards to reflect the many and varied interests that Mumsnetters have.

Anything from pets to health to relationships to gay children to education to things for sale to comments on site stuff to general chat, etc etc.

So why, oh why, do you persist in only posting in AIBU?

To annoy you

I post all over but am often here because I like bunfights heated debate

I don't get it either and it makes the place seem a little odd, tbh.

As I am a very reasonable person looking to redress the balance?


And the truth is there is nothing as funny as some of the posters on here.

The day that heated debate is restricted to one board is the day that hell will freeze over, Kayano

And this worries you because?

<Checks where BIWI has posted>

<sighs>

I don't get why it bothers people?

It always amuses me just how bothered some posters here are about which boards people choose to frequent?

Anyway, MN has a stupidly large amount of topics...that's why most of them are bloody empty and people come here for the traffic.

There are lots of boards but they are so quiet.

Why is there an 'other' topic within 'products'

And a 'products' topic within 'other' I just don't get it?!

It's a shame that some of the more "help related" bits don't get as much traffic, such as Parenting, because on there they get a more measured response from people

I post in the Litter Tray and on the Perimenopause threads....

So I am an old bag who smells of cat piss then...

It is also true that the number of Topics is overwhelming

So do you all just use AIBU or don't you look in Active Convos?

dont know where half the boards are and thanks whoever took exception to my thread on AIBU and pressed the little red button and AIBU is one of the busiest threads

There are a stupidly large number of topics, I'll go with that.

Nah I always forget to click active convos

To be honest, I normally keep two windows open...one on here and one of Facebook.

I do sometimes stray to Chat if it's busy (rarely) and sometimes Relationships but a few of the posters there piss me off so I tend not to bother much.

Exit - I posted very deliberately in AIBU, with an AIBU question!

And the rest of tonight I have posted all over the boards ...

Oh yeah and that's another thing

If I keep clicking active convos and posting on various threads, it's too hard to keep up with them all when I click 'threads I'm on'

So I normally lose interest in all of them

issey - sorry, I don't understand your post.

If someone had reported your thread, and it was moved, then that would indicate that AIBU wasn't an appropriate place for it.

Why not have a look at the list of topics and post in the relevant one?

If everyone just posts in AIBU then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that AIBU will be the busiest board on MN.

Any topic can be twisted into an AIBU.

And I like the posters on this part of MN, honest and will flay you alive given half a chance

I like to know where I stand.

There are some boards, like relationships, that I don't feel comfortable wading in with what I think because there seems to be a prescribed way of answering and I wouldn't like to give the 'wrong' advice.

It should be it
Site stuff surely?

I'm an Active Convo girl. Unless I have mud rash or bastard dog issues, in which case I post in the approrpriate places.

I am not sure I have ever been brave enough to start a thread in AIBU. But this is where all the fun is...

You'll probably be told to fuck off Ziggers if your advice doesn't 'fit' the norm

Seriously though, MN is the only place I've witnessed people giving a flying fuck about in which topic posters choose to post in