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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 · 17/05/2012 20:21

Proper Cooking & Booze
Fripperies

Babies (feeding)
Babies (everything else)

Holidays

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Get0rfMoiLand · 17/05/2012 20:20

i think we should leave Camping alone.

IslaValargeone · 17/05/2012 20:18

Fwiw I love the sub divisions so there.

SilentBoob · 17/05/2012 20:16

I'm never sure where to put questions about where to buy stuff.

Slubberdegullion · 17/05/2012 20:16

If interesting and fabulous Camping threads about delta pegs and sims end up in some god awful mega holiday topic alongside a load of prissy Mark Warner nonsense and ooooh 'is Bali nice at this time of year?' And 'I need a holiday cottage on Dartmoor with a hot tub' I will become quite cross.

Amalgamate the rest of them, whatever, but LEAVE CAMPING ALONE. Seriously.

And if anyone pisses about with The Great Outdoors there'll be trouble.

[crosses arms]

Get0rfMoiLand · 17/05/2012 20:08

And yes, a topic for RANTS. Grin

LordFlasheart · 17/05/2012 20:01

Home
Garden
Holiday
Kids
Relationships
Health

God...sounds like womans own, I feel it needs to be more pithy

HoneyDragonWearingLederhosen · 17/05/2012 19:48

Can we have a section just for Getorf? I think she needs more room to rant Wink

HoneyDragonWearingLederhosen · 17/05/2012 19:46

The idea of baking and main meals separate makes life easier and wine seperately.

Why not simply divide into three?

Grub, Pud and Pub?

Weaning goes well with breast and formula feeding.

thisisyesterday · 17/05/2012 19:39

agree agree agree

Get0rfMoiLand · 17/05/2012 19:26

SO GET RID OF 'EM ALL

You can have just ONE topic for animals (no need to have dogs, cats, fish, terrapins)

You can have ONE topic for holidays (no need for long haul, short haul, weekend breaks). Just ONE holiday topic.

ONE overarching topic for education - there really is no sensible reason to split it down into primary, secondary etc.

ONE topic for reading. no bloody need to have fiction, non-fiction, e-readers.

thisisyesterday · 17/05/2012 19:21

so Helen... you don't need things divided up into topics for any kind of analytical reasons or anything like that?

thisisyesterday · 17/05/2012 19:19

world cup 2010???

MNHQ... you need to have a tidy up! a proper one. Not just sweeping topics into the corner and hiding them with more topics

I thought we'd raised them better than this.

i'd be happy with 2 topics. parenting shit and other shit

Get0rfMoiLand · 17/05/2012 15:08

what the hell is this

surely this can go

Me, Jenai, Mardy and Thisisyesterday will sort it aht, MNHQ.

LadyMercy · 17/05/2012 15:00

Under food and drink, how about: Sweet, Savory and Beverages

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JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 16/05/2012 10:34

Grin @ Mardy's finds.

Homework Corner would actually be quite nice; I'm not sure I even knew it existed. I'm sure there was a similar section on another (long gone) parenting forum I used to frequent.

I think with some of the more specialist topics, that it would be prudent to actually ask the regular users how they feel. I appreciate that there are some safe places where people can discuss sensitive issues without having their threads overrun with numpties like me stating the bleeding obvious.

I don't count Baking in that category, but I'm a bit scared that if it was scrapped the Bakers would come at me with their Kitchen Aids Shock Grin

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ComradeJing · 16/05/2012 10:13

It's madness to have food and recipes and baking and wine as separate topics.

Should simply be food and drink.

MNHQ
HelenMumsnet · 16/05/2012 10:03

@thisisyesterday

MN... why do you like topics? does it help you in any way?

Well, we like to keep you lot happy - and if there's a demand for a new topic, we have tended in the past to bung it up.

But we're aware that there are so many topics now - and they're probably not very well signposted - that many people ignore them/don't know about them and just post in AIBU or Chat instead.

This means some topics are tumbleweed. Which leads even more people to put threads in AIBU or Chat instead.

Nothing wrong with AIBU or Chat, mind. It's just that, if we've got all these Topics, it would be nice if they were all well used.

MardyBra · 16/05/2012 00:18

ha ha ha ha ha

MardyBra · 16/05/2012 00:17

Surely this can go: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/christmas_card_auction

MardyBra · 16/05/2012 00:13

Underused: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/homework_corner

MardyBra · 16/05/2012 00:11

- I've just found a completely empty topic

MardyBra · 15/05/2012 23:30

Topics are good.

Topics mean I can hide stuff like camping, conception, ante/post-natal clubs, baby equipment, BF/FF and anything to do with pets. Then Active Convos really works for me, because in theory I only see threads that might be of interest. And I love the new easy hide function, which allows me to really hone my active list.

Topics also mean that if I'm in the mood for something specific I can meander into Feminism, Pedants' Corner or AIBU, depending on whether I'm feeling feminist, pedantic or up for a fight.

But there are so many topics, nobody know where to put threads, so everything gets bunged into Chat and AIBU.

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JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 15/05/2012 21:42

I like topics, because I like to file things. I would hate for there to be just the one, as it would be overrun with ttc threads and the like.

But too atomised and it becomes unworkable.

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thisisyesterday · 15/05/2012 20:27

MN... why do you like topics?
does it help you in any way?

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