Would it be feasible to have a <board name> : All view?

Ah yes I can see the link. Ideally I'd really like to have an option to merge both sets of thread titles for viewing purposes only, and I imagine this would also be useful for some of the other split boards too. But this is helpful, thanks MNHQ.

This is an irrelevant suggestion unless and until @MNHQ bothers to come on both feminist boards and explain what the difference is meant to be.

It is a complete mess, as one board has rules, one doesn't, but the same topics are getting posted on both boards.

Still its giving the outsiders who monitor mumsnet a lot of laughs.

They couldn't have done better themselves in destroying what was a powerful voice for women's rights into an apolitical nonetity.

Please can we have one board for feminist - ie women's rights.

Those who are put off to be seen to be feminist could have a board called equality rights.

There is nobody posting on mumsnet and mumsnet itself who is entitled to say what is or is not feminist.

What was mumsnet USP has been tarnished and the damaged the reputation that few have kept in the social media warrior wars of maintaining a balance.

Can we please go back to being growns ups.

Yes, I can now see a wee link to either board within each. Which helps a bit. Would still prefer to see all threads together - if it were possible to bookmark the 'FWR' header and see them all together, that would be ideal, imo. But I don't know what is and isn't possible or how much internet stickytape the MN office has access to.

T o be clear, I mean "yes it is new", it hasn't been there before.

Yes.

Was that there before? A link to the other board appears if I'm on the contents list or on a thread. Wow, if that's new, thanks! If it's not, just ignore me.

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Have MN just introduced a quick switch from each of the bpards to the other?

Yes that's exactly it @ifIwerenotanandroid

And without impugning a lack of trustworthiness on people the entente cordial is still quite fragile.

And in practical terms the split will become less tangible on a merged view potential causing unintended conflict.

Anyway I've made my point.

It's important that people know what the two boards are for & how to use them, if the split is to work. After that, it's down to individual posters what happens. It does seem at the moment that anyone can get a thread removed from the Chat board simply by introducing either side of the debate into it, pro- or anti-, which makes it seem a little vulnerable. Is that what bothers you?

We're asking for it as an option. For those people that want to look at both. Not for it to be changed for everyone. All of your concerns can happen whether it's viewed as one board or not as all the people using it will know there are two boards and will be interested in both.

It's not being "moved" for the all viewers is it. It started in all view and remains in all view. But is lost to feminism chat.

But as we've seen, lespionniers, if anyone errs by bringing sex and gender into a feminist topic, it gets moved.

All I'm getting from your posts on this lespionniers is that you don't think we can be trusted and should therefore stay in our box.

Human nature DialSquare. There's been a lot of posts about how frustrated people are that they are expected not to bring identity debates into every topic. The gender pay gap is an example.

When you start a new thread you'll have to choose which of the two boards it goes on, so i can't see any reason for that changing.

Sorry les I'm not sure I fully understand what change you think this will bring or why? It's equivalent to choosing to look at 'active' threads rather than one specific board.

there's now an absence of identity debate in the topics chat board threads

There's been about three new threads in the 'chat' board, as far as I can see. The rest were already in Feminism Chat, as was, and have just remained there while the other 700 odd were shifted into the new board.

But, and I am not a techy person, it won't be 'merging' the boards, just making both visible at once. Keeping each thread in its respective board, but adding a facility to view both boards at once.

Unless you're suggesting it's actually impossible to discuss feminism without reference to sex/gender, in which case I would probably be mostly inclined to agree.

It's possible to discuss feminism topics without the gender identity debate.

The current split facilitates that. It will reverse as fast as it stopped if the two boards are mergeable.

Yes I get that DialSquare and as I've posted above there's now an absence of identity debate in the topics chat board threads.

Which is a good thing for those who want that to be the case.

I’m not sure about “seeing all” the actual threads, I think we’re asking for an easy way to click between the two boards?

Unless you're suggesting it's actually impossible to discuss feminism without reference to sex/gender, in which case I would probably be mostly inclined to agree.