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Why is there a baking topic?

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JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 10/05/2012 16:12

I thought there was a move to rationalise the number of topics on MN.

It was bad enough having Recipes and Food. Now it's Recipes and Food and Baking (oh and Weaning I think). Wouldn't one "Feed The World" topic be preferable?

Sorry if this has been covered already.

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JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 19/05/2012 15:58

I blame

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thisisyesterday · 19/05/2012 15:15

lol i thought you were complaining because you dodn't want to have to post in the PFB parenting section haha

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JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 19/05/2012 11:20

Err, wrong thread

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WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 18/05/2012 21:57

Keep Baking and Food, but get rid of recipes.

And yes PLEASE sort out the topic selection thing in advanced search, as Drought says, it doesn't work at all on an Ipad and is cumbersome on a normal computer. It would help if you could just type in the first few letters of your chosen topic and it would give you a drop down list to choose from.

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OliviaLMumsnet · 18/05/2012 21:49

at MI

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JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 18/05/2012 21:46

I only have an 11yo pfb

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motherinferior · 18/05/2012 21:01

I bet a MyhusbandspoketoawomanisthisanEA topic would do really well...

motherinferior · 18/05/2012 21:00

I still think Savoury Snacks is necessary.

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HelenMumsnet · 18/05/2012 17:34

HoneyDragonWearingLederhosen · 18/05/2012 14:11

What about

PFB Parenting Stuff

Actually Useful Parenting Stuff

thisisyesterday · 18/05/2012 13:22

really?

ok what about

parenting stuff
other stuff?

oh and baking and camping

MNHQ

HelenMumsnet · 18/05/2012 10:18

Thanks everyone. This is all really helpful though not sure 'parenting shit' is really a goer

Do keep the suggestions coming.

And don't worry about Baking: no plans to cull that....

thisisyesterday · 18/05/2012 09:14

differentname it isn't just about seeing the topics though, it's the fact that half the time people don't know where to post things because there are just so many topics.

if you aren't sure where to put something it takes an absolute age to trawl through all the lists of topics and find the most appropriate place to put it

which means that most of the time people just start them in chat or AIBU.

isla well that's a different matter entirely then! although if it was a specific thread title that led to your "ahah!" moment then I still maintain that you may well have seen that regardless of what topic it was actually in.. in active convos or just under a differently headed topic

IslaValargeone · 18/05/2012 08:47

this yesterday yes I would.
I wouldn't have started a thread at all, because I wasn't actively looking for a manky bananas solution.
I saw baking, took a little nosey and then said "Aahah" in an Alan Partridge like fashion.

TheFoosa · 18/05/2012 08:22

I like thisisyesterday's rather utilitarian

parenting shit
other shit

differentnameforthis · 18/05/2012 08:13

You can hide them, I don't see what the issue is!

ObviouslyOblivious · 18/05/2012 07:38

Get rid of old topics - world cup 2010 etc.
Then get rid of AIBU and everyone will have to use the proper topics as there's no area 'for the traffic'.

TheSkiingGardener · 18/05/2012 06:34

How about any topic that attracts less than 1 post a day gets cut, ruthlessly, with an axe if necessary.

And then rationalise what's left.

Or MNHQ could choose a section a week, propose how it would be slimmed down, and then we could fight it out for a week. Whatever survived the fight, gets to stay?

DroughtMyArse · 18/05/2012 06:21

MNHQ - please can your sort out the advanced search thing for searching under a specific topic, I CANNOT (and never have in the years I have been on here) sort out the arrow moving thingy. Now, on the iPad, it just does not work at all. PLEASE!

Oh and please leave baking alone (mmmm s). Main meals, baking, drink. I am always confused between food and recipes. If the advanced search thingy worked for me it wouldn't matter

thisisyesterday · 17/05/2012 21:43

i would not be the slightest bit sad to see AIBU go either.

i used to quite like when people posted in chat with the title "am i being unreasonable number 9328509438u6[0uq3046u31"

and I do think it tends to bring out the worst in some posters who are just dying to say YABU regardless of what anyone posts.
but that's probably a whole other thread

thisisyesterday · 17/05/2012 21:42

you gotta be jenai, this is no time for being weak and kind.

this is tough love. they'll all thank us for it in the end

thisisyesterday · 17/05/2012 21:41

i'm happy to leave camping

although i never did understand why we need camping AND the great outdoors... camping could just come under the great outdoors surely?

silentboob there is a "products" topic where you can ask about htings you want to buy.

although i am sure we'll be doing away with that soon enough

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JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 17/05/2012 21:40

tiy is HARD LINE

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thisisyesterday · 17/05/2012 21:39

isla no you wouldn't.

you'd have posted in "food" what shall i do with my bananas and the same people would have told you

or you'd have done a search, or googled, for things to make with old bananas and found out!

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JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 17/05/2012 21:32

Ways, even.

In these straitened times, it'd be a godsend.

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