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What threads do you always hide?

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Acc0untant · 13/04/2025 17:00

If any!

If I scroll through and see anyone ask about accountancy help, HMRC advice, tax return, accounts etc I just hide them. I can't stand seeing 90% of the "advice" on those threads being absolute bollocks.

I used to hide the divorce ones when I was going through mine, I didn't want extra headspace going into it.

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EmpressaurusKitty · 13/04/2025 18:13

WeirdyBeardyMarrowBabyLady · 13/04/2025 18:06

I don’t hide these but I never ever open them!

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I hide them too, because otherwise I’d end up posting ‘Mind your own business’ which doesn’t seem fair.

Also the ‘You have to name your pet after the last thing you bought at the supermarket. What do you name your pet?’ type threads because they always just end up as long lists & seem pointless.

B1indEye · 13/04/2025 18:11

TuckedUpInBedWithAPackOfCremeEggs · 13/04/2025 17:54

Can you do that from the app??

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No idea, I don't know why anyone uses the app with its limited functions, but I assume that if you hide them on the website they won't appear on the app

Teenagequeenwithaloadedgun · 13/04/2025 18:09

Am I pregnant?
What colour are my eyes
Anything to do with death
Trans threads
Wordle threads

I should hide 'how old do I look?' threads because they drive me insane, but sometimes I wind myself up and read them.

WeirdyBeardyMarrowBabyLady · 13/04/2025 18:06

fuckingangrybirdbrows · 13/04/2025 18:00

'Good morning! What is everyone up to today?'

urgh fuck off

I don’t hide these but I never ever open them!

Middleagedstriker · 13/04/2025 18:03

jellyfishperiwinkle · 13/04/2025 17:02

I hide the Feminism sex & gender board and The Royal Family as I find posters on both absolutely nuts.

So true! They are equally as dogmatic and full of people who can't hold a sensible conversation even though I agree with the sentiment ofln the feminism board its so unnuanced it reminds me of trying to have a conversation with somebody from the socialist worker party.

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Acc0untant · 13/04/2025 18:03

An eclectic mix it seems!

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fuckingangrybirdbrows · 13/04/2025 18:00

'Good morning! What is everyone up to today?'

urgh fuck off

JHound · 13/04/2025 17:59

I did not know you could hide any? Excellent news - let me figure out how.

WeirdyBeardyMarrowBabyLady · 13/04/2025 17:59

Royal Family - so many obsessives
Guess the sex from the scan photo - utter drivel but ‘just for fun’
Sex topic - full of weirdos

Smallmercies · 13/04/2025 17:59

Anything trans related. Bad for my blood pressure.

TuckedUpInBedWithAPackOfCremeEggs · 13/04/2025 17:58

Tandora · 13/04/2025 17:19

why?

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Complex reasons tbh, stemmed from
deep trauma/body image/disordered eating.

But main reason being that many posters are evangelical about them despite not knowing anything about long term effects and completely refusing to listen to anybody that dare suggest anything negative about long term effects etc.

TuckedUpInBedWithAPackOfCremeEggs · 13/04/2025 17:54

B1indEye · 13/04/2025 17:05

Why haven't you hidden the topic?

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Can you do that from the app??

Tandora · 13/04/2025 17:20

jellyfishperiwinkle · 13/04/2025 17:02

I hide the Feminism sex & gender board and The Royal Family as I find posters on both absolutely nuts.

You are not wrong..

Tandora · 13/04/2025 17:19

TuckedUpInBedWithAPackOfCremeEggs · 13/04/2025 17:01

Weight loss jabs

why?

B1indEye · 13/04/2025 17:18

gamerchick · 13/04/2025 17:12

They don't stay in there. People think they've found the holy grail and want to talk about it, not getting that we're not interested and would rather the threads stay in their own board.

Definitely long titles..

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Weight loss jabs to me seem to be the ones that do actually stay in the right topic, I wonder if MN are hot on moving them

I don't have them hidden but have noticed that they always seem to be where they belong

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 13/04/2025 17:16

I don't think I've hidden any but ghere are loads I don't open from the title

ThisIsMyYearToFindMyself · 13/04/2025 17:15

There was a long running saga about a horse in a field once, that ended up discussing which actress would play the OP in the film.

And there was one that started out about the programme ‘our girl in the army’ or something, with Stacey Slater (Eastenders) that ran and ran and ran and ran……………..

Lundier · 13/04/2025 17:13

I hide loads of topics like the Royal Family and Sporners Corner and so on. All the ones about abused and dead children. Sometimes I hide all of AIBU to give myself a break - if I find myself getting all aerated about something.

Really I should stop going to Active and just use My Feed, but I don't remember ever doing this really. When did that feature come in?

gamerchick · 13/04/2025 17:12

B1indEye · 13/04/2025 17:05

Why haven't you hidden the topic?

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They don't stay in there. People think they've found the holy grail and want to talk about it, not getting that we're not interested and would rather the threads stay in their own board.

Definitely long titles..

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 13/04/2025 17:12

Anything that starts 'who thinks there's going to be a war?' or similar. I'm old enough to remember the aftermath of the last war, and the very topic fills me with such dread that I can't even look.

ZookeeperSE · 13/04/2025 17:12

I don’t hide any particular subjects, but I avoid posting on the ones that are clearly trolling with some subject or other and are loving the attention, updating constantly (suspiciously quickly), creating thread two three and four in quick succession and getting all the usual sycophantic fan girling.

SallyD00lally · 13/04/2025 17:10

I don't think I've ever hidden a thread.

I either read the title and don't open it, or I open it, read the OP and then just ignore it.

ThisIsMyYearToFindMyself · 13/04/2025 17:09

I used to hide hundreds. Thousands. But if I hid one mistakenly it was impossible to get it back because they didn’t seem to be in any order whatsoever. So I unhid everything, some were years old, and now I hide but after a month or so I unhide so they have hopefully dropped off the front page and I don’t see them anyway.

calanaiscailleach · 13/04/2025 17:09

Anything with references to animal abuse/neglect.

BobnLen · 13/04/2025 17:08

No threads but I hide topics that don't interest me

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