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Can we have a cull of the topics list?

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GetOrfMo1Land · 27/10/2011 15:39

Discussed this on the AIBU thread in site stuff.

People get pissed off witg the fact that some topics are too quiet and so people post stuff in aibu when it shouldn't be there. That may be because loads of people hide topics which do not interest them, so some topics get no traffic.

Do we really need to have so many topics. For instance, could there not be a Pets topic. Is there reallt any need to dogs, cats, hamsters, chickens, horses, FISH to have their own topic really?

There are too many sub-topics I think and it is a pain in the arse I think.

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KatieMortician · 27/10/2011 19:05

But Maryz if you dedicate yourself to the filing who will lead the anti-like button campaign?

I am realising I spend more time in Site Stuff than I do on AIBU [saddo]

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GetOrfMo1Land · 27/10/2011 19:01
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GetOrfMo1Land · 27/10/2011 19:01

I have started two threads in site stuff today - this one and one requesting that the bear emotiocn is banished.

Je suis un sad bastard.

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Maryz · 27/10/2011 19:00

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ShowOfHands · 27/10/2011 18:55

I'd like the job of filing MN threads into their correct place. For the first time in my long and illustrious MN career, I'd be thoroughly anal.

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GetOrfMo1Land · 27/10/2011 18:50

Oh god yes MN perennials.

You wouldn't start a topic in MN perennials, but the 86907th parking space thread will come up, we will all groan, and we can elect to move it there. It will be like an elephant's graveyard for threads.

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GetOrfMo1Land · 27/10/2011 18:48

No response from MNHQ when there are twelve thousands of MNers clamouring for change.

Pah.

PAH.

It's like the Liberal Democrats.

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ShowOfHands · 27/10/2011 18:47

We need a MN Perennials for stuff that comes up time and again. That'll catch a lot of the misfiled stuff and I do think my Friday Night Topic has a place in the new and improved reduced topic MN. Boils and the like can go in it too. All the fetishistic nonsense.

hocuspontas · 27/10/2011 18:41

Thanks!
Never heard of it.

DumbledoresGore · 27/10/2011 18:30

Well, that's proof enough that there are too many topics when an established Mner does not recognise one when it is written in shorthand.

(Hocuspontas: Off the Beaten Track, the place where campers like to be)

hocuspontas · 27/10/2011 18:27

What's OTBT?

DumbledoresGore · 27/10/2011 18:26

LOL still not old enough yet!

I did mean to put a Wink after my last post, but now that you have a cast a slur on my age...

Slubberdegullion · 27/10/2011 18:12

Oh DG. Rude.

So what are the topics on the saga forum then, what with you being a regular member and all?

TethHearseEnd · 27/10/2011 18:08

There's a Fishnet?

I bet the discussions on there are brilliant- the same comments over and over again as nobody can remember what they just posted Grin

DumbledoresGore · 27/10/2011 18:05

Camping and OTBT: the same thing, surely?

Slubberdegullion · 27/10/2011 18:03

mm

Come to think of it, that is exactly what I already have, with thanks to the handy customise button.

So my revised thoughts are mn:leave it.

Thanks again [flowers emoticon but with more greenery round the back]

punkinpie · 27/10/2011 18:03

There is a little niche for everyone.

Slubberdegullion · 27/10/2011 18:01

Camping topic: LEAVE IT

Everything else pfft. I care not really, although I do like chat not being archived, so yeah, chat can stay [benevolent]

Oh and OTBT. That is awesome and genius mnhq.

Chat
All The Rest Of It (with a hide button)
Camping
OTBT

tia Smile

RustyBear · 27/10/2011 17:58

I always check Geeky Stuff to see if there's anything I can help with - where would you put that so it doesn't get lost? They tend to be threads that need a quick answer.

I still think a My Topics facility, like on the app, would be useful, because if people could put their favourite topics on there and then flick through them, the topics would get a lot more traffic; at the moment it's a bit of a faff to check individual topics.

punkinpie · 27/10/2011 17:54

I often look at the Topics list.

I like niche subjects.

Smile
SheCutOffTheirTails · 27/10/2011 17:50

In my day there were just two topics I Am Being Reasonable and I Am Being Unreasonable.

It all started to go wrong when topics with question marks were allowed.

DumbledoresGore · 27/10/2011 17:32

I agree - too many sub topics espesh.

I have recently joined another forum and so have an inkling of what it is like to come to a forum new. It took me a while to scroll down the new forum and get an idea of what topics there were to post in. I have been on MN for 7 years and still don't know the half of them! If there are so many they can't all be read on one page (as is the case now) then there are too many, imo.

KatieMortician · 27/10/2011 17:25

Smile Just thought I'd tip you off in case it was a bit quiet on your thread. You wanna sit next to Maryz to discuss the like buttton Wink

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GetOrfMo1Land · 27/10/2011 17:08

lol at 'in my day'

'I remember during the wo-ar...'

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ItsonlymeMrsDB · 27/10/2011 17:08

Oh, sorry Katie.

I haven't been here for a while. Shite stuff in RL.

Ooops !