To wish AIBU hadn't become a repository for every sort of post

[Sallyingforth]

that should have gone in other forums.

[PaulAnkaTheDog]

Surely this could have gone in Site Stuff?

[Sparklingbrook]

YANBU, I think a lot of posters think AIBU is the only topic and never venture out of it.

Also posters who claim to need help just stick the post on AIBU when they would get better and probably less arsey replies in the correct topic.

[CrazyDuchess]

YANBU

[bialystockandbloom]

Totally agree. So many threads started now don't even have an AIBU question, even implicitly. Might as well be done with In the News section now.

[RhodaBull]

Agree. This has been annoying me for some time (and I have been on here for about ten years). People just want traffic and know that if they post in,say, "Short haul travel" they will get fewer replies than if they say, "AIBU to want to take a trip to Prague in October?"

[hellswelshy]

shrugs I quite like the diversity personally.

[Lweji]

That ship has sailed years ago.
And yes, yabu.

[Sparklingbrook]

Thank goodness for the Hide Thread function.

[WellErrr]

Where should this have gone?

[Sparklingbrook]

This is in the right section as far as I am concerned. A proper AIBU with a question and everything.

[WorraLiberty]

I don't really care that people post in AIBU for traffic.

But what makes me irrationally annoyed, is the amount of threads that are deliberately constructed to start or end with the question AIBU?

So, "AIBU that I saw a dying bee and saved its life?" (I made that up, but you get my drift).

Why not just start a thread saying, "I saw a dying bee today and saved its life"?

I don't care if it's here or in Chat, but people make themselves look daft by trying to shoehorn that question into their OP.

But you know, I'll get over it and all that

[Sparklingbrook]

Finding out I could hide a thread without even opening it has been a revelation as far as the AIBU topic is concerned.

[WorraLiberty]

I don't hide threads.

I just don't bother opening them again, if they annoy/don't interest me.

[Sparklingbrook]

I love hiding threads it clears up Active nicely.

[araiba]

if you post in aibu, expect arsey replies

[newtscamander]

yanbu. There is no point in most of the topics on this forum, everyone seems to post in AIBU or chat or the pregnancy boards.

[MackerelOfFact]

AIBU is basically just 'tell me if I'm right or wrong' isn't it? It covers everything.

MNers love to pile in and tell people they are wrong (myself included [grin[) so naturally it gets a lot of traffic.

[Just5minswithDacre]

Surely this could have gone in Site Stuff? 

She's right

[Sparklingbrook]

Why Site Stuff? MNHQ don't need to know or do anything.

[WorraLiberty]

AIBU is basically just 'tell me if I'm right or wrong' isn't it? It covers everything.

With a dose of 'please pat me on the back'

[WriteforFun1]

I agree

I particularly hate the "my husband expects me to work down a mine, AIBU" type stuff. I haven't said anything because I think some of those do result in a wake up call which is good. But sometimes I really puzzle over what goes in AIBU.

[WellErrr]

Bitchplops