I notice that quite often people post venting about really annoying things that have happened (and they have then sworn internally at strangers) and then people come on and say "Oh, you shouldn't do that, really you ought to calm down and take an anger management course" when all they have done is be angry and not acted out in an angry way.
there are also lots of situations where people have utter shit happen to them and they feel that they can't really vent as someone will come on and be either all prissy or offer 'helpful' advice.
Really if we had a topic where people could come on and say "look there's nothing you can do and I've already fecked this up but please let me vent as I feel crap" then maybe some of the massive bun fights/misunderstandings on AIBU wouldn't happen.
What do you think??
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How about we have a HUGE VENT topic?
LaurieFairyCake · 12/09/2011 13:05
I've only been here for the last couple of years, and at the beginning I could see the usefulness of AIBU, but that area seems to be less and less useful as it seems to have become the dumping ground for either things that should be in other areas (but wouldn't attract much response) or for things that should be in WWYD (but wouldn't attract much response) or for things, as Laurie says, that would just be venting (which I'd occasionally like to do, but they're not serious issues).
The trouble is that when I access MN either by 'last hour' or 'last 5 minutes', AIBU is at the top of the list, which doesn't help as that attracts people to that topic. Maybe it's time to ditch AIBU and replace it with ARSE, which would be alphabetically useful, but darned if I know what that could be an acronym for. 
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