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PLease no more blinking categoreies

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codswallop · 04/11/2004 21:07

anyone yearn for the old days of about htree categories
please no more sections for "one legged mums who are vegetarian like a joke on a saturday and have blonde hair"

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MrsDoolittle · 04/11/2004 21:35

I'm afraid that so many categories means that things do become a bit confusing and MN loses the 'cosey' feeling. Only my opinion of course.
Has Mumsnet become alot more active recently or have I just become slower?
Coddy, you make me laugh. How do you get away with it??

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codswallop · 04/11/2004 21:35

lol I just put minxin tot he images search and came up with a lot less than minxes
some german prefessor claled minx

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Justine (mumsnet) · 04/11/2004 21:34

Lou's met me, 'tis true.

zebra · 04/11/2004 21:33

Being the perfect clone of my own DD, I would like to go thru Other Subjects and parcel out the old threads to the new topics.

-Z (member of compulsive ordering order)

SenoraPostrophe · 04/11/2004 21:32

Maybe some sub-categories are needed, rather than whole new categories.

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codswallop · 04/11/2004 21:32

I like to embed.
;)

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codswallop · 04/11/2004 21:31

pmsl lou

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SenoraPostrophe · 04/11/2004 21:31

Yes, can we have a "women who live in Spain and are grammar curmudgeons" topic, please.

Coddy, did you see I edited your embedded relative clause there? I do hope you don't mind.

lou33 · 04/11/2004 21:30

NO Coddy, this is Justine

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codswallop · 04/11/2004 21:28

like those threads where everyone piles in? ;)

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codswallop · 04/11/2004 21:28

I am finding "only joking " too explicitly UN- funny already
liek a pissed person in a pub who wants to tell you a joke.....

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Justine (mumsnet) · 04/11/2004 21:28

The only thing is that 'tis part of our plan for world domination to get much bigger. If you've ever been on a thread with enormous numbers of people contributing it does get a bit sureal - by the time your answer pops up, you're answering a different question if you know what I mean, which can be fun of course but also confusing. More categories sort of spreads people out a bit, which is probably a good idea - but there does obviously have to be some limit - a full talk home page is probably a sensible place to call a halt...

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codswallop · 04/11/2004 21:26

like that?

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codswallop · 04/11/2004 21:26

"women who live in spain who are grammar curmudgeons?"

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SenoraPostrophe · 04/11/2004 21:25

but other subjects is too big - it's impossible to find anything.

I like categories.

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codswallop · 04/11/2004 21:25

justine

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codswallop · 04/11/2004 21:24

mn HQ

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Rowlers · 04/11/2004 21:24

Leave it as it is, no more needed surely?

lou33 · 04/11/2004 21:23

Agree with you coddy.

lou33 · 04/11/2004 21:23

I thikn if you have many more sections it will be getting a tad ott tbh.

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codswallop · 04/11/2004 21:22

Its got that way already Jutine Ithink
a ittel bit of " other subjects" does no harm!

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SenoraPostrophe · 04/11/2004 21:21

I think we should have a "Codswallop's rant of the day" category.

onlyjoking9329 · 04/11/2004 21:21

well i was impressed to see a thread with my name

Justine (mumsnet) · 04/11/2004 21:21

Well we hadn't thought of the bog off approach but we'll certainly add it to our armoury, thanks . Funnily enough this has become a topic of discussion at hq - how many categories and what's the limit. What does everyone think - is it too unwieldy or if not how many categories would be too many?

blossomhill · 04/11/2004 21:20

Coddy - you are crazy