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Seeing a hidden section

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FelicityBeedle · 21/06/2021 17:29

I’m seeing a section I definitely have hidden occasionally in active, just now there are two threads from it visible. Is it just me?

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CardinalLolzy · 21/06/2021 22:29

All this skirting around the topic!
Skirts?
Think your post belongs in Sex & Gender Grin

Mrgrinch · 21/06/2021 22:27

Thanks for clarifying that, although I'm still confused. I don't really post there anyway so probably won't affect me. For a start I have no idea what the hundreds of abbreviations stand for, and I can never keep up with the threads because they move so quickly.

Quaggars · 21/06/2021 22:25

@Mrgrinch

Which board has been split and what's it been split into?
The feminism board has been separated into two different topics, whereas as there was around half a dozen topics under the feminism board before, it's been streamlined into two. One to talk about sex based rights and trans issues, and the other for general feminism chat and other feminism topics away from the trans debate.
QuillBill · 21/06/2021 22:24

@Mrgrinch

Which board has been split and what's it been split into?

Just what I was going to say. All this skirting around the topic! It's like Gina Ford all over again.

Mrgrinch · 21/06/2021 22:21

Which board has been split and what's it been split into?

MsFogi · 21/06/2021 22:19

FFS MN - every time I come on MN today I dislike it a bit more. How to alienate a large portion of your posters/readership in one easy step. And all for what, so people can hide two boards rather than one. I only come on here for the Feminist chat (as it was before being split) and occasionally the S&B board - somehow I can manage to scroll through all the mum stuff on the Active boards! (And before anyone bleats about it being a site for mums clearly it is not centred around women or we wold be able to talk about sex as a biological fact etc etc and I first joined in 2005 when I was interested in the mum stuff!).

ArabellaScott · 21/06/2021 22:19

I completely agree, Strawberry. It's clunky as anything to have to keep going back to 'Talk' to scroll to find the new board. Daft.

Zeev · 21/06/2021 22:17

@Quaggars

Free speech? Do you mean to be able to talk without talk guidelines in place as I'd have thought they'd still stand whichever board they're on.
I would be fine with sitewide guidelines instead of ones tailored just to curtail the speech in one small corner of the site.
StrawberryLipstickStateOfMind · 21/06/2021 22:16

But based on all of this, Mumsnet should surely have a separate AstraZeneca section after all the scaremongering/threads on AZ on the corona board? 😂

Loubiemoo · 21/06/2021 22:15

Yes. Same here OP.

YesItsMeIDontCare · 21/06/2021 22:14

Yes, are there many cat chats in Active, generally?! I mean, fill your boots, I love cats, but surely there's a long wait between trending cat-related conversations?

Nope, not many. I head to The Litter Tray board or just go to Threads I'm on. I guess that's kinda the point. If someone isn't interested in cats there's sometimes a thread or two to scroll past, if someone's not interested in getting involved in the gender debate it's a lot more. I just thought that might be why people preferred to hide the whole topic rather than just scroll past. I realise I may be completely wrong.

(Kittens/cats are vicious little bastards so not really the complete opposite to vipers 😂)

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ArabellaScott · 21/06/2021 22:05

I do think that a kittens/Vipers split would be easier to understand than the current set up, Strawberry. Totally baffled by it. Makes no sense at all.

Yes, are there many cat chats in Active, generally?! I mean, fill your boots, I love cats, but surely there's a long wait between trending cat-related conversations?

YesItsMeIDontCare · 21/06/2021 22:02

@ArabellaScott

You're in Feminism to talk about cats?
😂 No! I saw this while I was scrolling through Active, having just posted on the Cat Chat thread. By "here" I meant Mumsnet.

(Tbf all my female cats would have been bloody good for feminism though... feisty little buggers who took no shit from anyone)

StrawberryLipstickStateOfMind · 21/06/2021 22:02

Well I was going to suggest the new board that others were so desperate to have could be called LibFem 🐱 with a fluffy kitten emoji, @ArabellaScott

I'd quite like ours to be Reality Based Vipers 🐍

Quaggars · 21/06/2021 21:59

You're in Feminism to talk about cats?

Where did she say that lol
I read it as sometimes threads come up in active convo bar from the feminism boards as a few sometimes trend, not so much from the litter tray or wherever though.

ArabellaScott · 21/06/2021 21:57

You're in Feminism to talk about cats?

YesItsMeIDontCare · 21/06/2021 21:47

@StrawberryLipstickStateOfMind

I'm not hear for the doghouse or baby names topics, but funnily enough I manage to scroll on by without even hiding them tbh.

I wonder why some people struggle to do this 🤔 any ideas on that?

It's probably to do with the amount in "Active Convos". They'll only be one or two from The Litter Tray or Baby Names or whatever, but when a dozen of them are Feminism (the majority of which will be a discussion about trans issues at the moment) it can push other, more light-hearted threads off the board.

Some of us are here just to talk about cats 🤷🏼‍♀️.

Quaggars · 21/06/2021 21:37

Free speech? Do you mean to be able to talk without talk guidelines in place as I'd have thought they'd still stand whichever board they're on.

Zeev · 21/06/2021 21:24

Do we have free speech on our new gender/sex naughty step?

StrawberryLipstickStateOfMind · 21/06/2021 20:54

Ah ok @FelicityBeedle. Never mind if women are negatively affected and want to express their opinions on that, eh?

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FelicityBeedle · 21/06/2021 20:38

@StrawberryLipstickStateOfMind
I have had FWR hidden for a long time because I disagree so fundamentally with a lot of the content posted, and the opinions expressed negatively affects my friends and family. If I see the threads I feel obliged to post on them but I often don’t have the spoons for that

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GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat · 21/06/2021 20:16

Why have they suddenly been unhidden from Active Threads? I get that a lot of sections have been changed (though most have had to see their fav sections reduced in size, this one seems to have grown) but why would those who have it hidden suddenly want to see it again? Unilateral decision for us?

SimonedeBeauvoirscat · 21/06/2021 20:08

Ok so why did you (organisation, not you personally) enact a big change before that discussion had been concluded? Why wasn’t it announced? @LilyMumsnet
I’m sorry for targeting you, it’s very unfair, but this is the only answer from anyone at MNHQ I’m aware of since the idea was first floated in the middle of a thread about something different. And that question hasn’t been answered either so can you please acknowledge that question too please.

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LilyMumsnet · 21/06/2021 20:01

Hi all

Sorry - it can take a bit longer to answer policy based questions.

I've just hopped on for the evening, and I can get to techy issues quite quickly - however, certain topics require more discussion amongst staff, which is why we get to the techy issues faster.