war topic

There's one at the moment assuming that because BAs website is down, it must be Russian hackers. Now someone is claiming that planes just might fall out of the sky. Couldn't possibly be that BA are just shit and it happens fairly often.

People who dont use MN are not going to come here for information on Russia or Ukraine.

I would guess a lot of the posters making shit up now were also the hysterical ones in 2020 telling people it was against "the rules" to buy easter eggs and hair dye.

@cakeorwine I can see 5. Including the euro vision one.

Time will tell if MNHQ want a topic I suppose. Until then it's War in AIBU.

If you think there should be, start a thread on it and ask mnhq

I don't

Because I think people who see threads on AIBU about the energy crisis will read them and hopefully be more informed. Instead of going to a specific topic.

And yes, if people are posting the threads will show up in active.

Honestly - having looked at Active, there aren't many threads on this.

I guess this thread in itself is a self fullfilling prophecy because people who want a war topic have come to see if there is a thread on it and have posted on it to ask for one.

What you haven't seen is the other people on MN who don't want a war topic. Because they wouldn't think to come to Site stuff to see if there is a thread about a war topic.

Just like when people complain about the BBC to OFCOM. You only hear from the people who have complained. Not the many who haven't complained.

This thread is more annoying than the weird threads. Hiding.

They will know the topic exists when a thread appears in Active and they click on it.
Or when they start a thread and it gets moved over.

What’s the point of creating yet another fucking topic to add to the dozens which are already in existence when people post everything in AIBU ‘for traffic’ and MNHQ refuse to move threads into the relevant topics?

If they create another one now, in a few weeks it’ll be tumbleweed like all the others. Then in 10 years time, MNHQ will post on it asking if it’s ok to streamline it with chat or whatever, about 6 posters will scream and shout demanding that they MUST have a thread solely about the Russia-Ukraine war and then it will be tumbleweed for another 10 years.

The topic could just be called Ukraine.

With the best will in the world mumsnet is not currently a good place to find out information on Ukraine, and multiple random threads in AIBU are not helping that.

Because people won't know the topic exists if they aren't looking for topics and don't search by active.

You can see covid posts in active. People found that board. That didn't exist 25 months ago, then it was created and people used it.

The same will happen with separate topic for this.

1. They start a new thread and then someone reports it and it gets moved over
2. They find the thread from active convos
3. They use the search function

There's loads of threads about the energy situation at the moment.

Why haven't people called for a topic on that?

We have a cost of living crisis.

Maybe that calls for its own topic?

The amount of thread duplication implies that people haven’t noticed existing threads on Ukraine in AIBU.

What would they call it anyway?

Ukraine invasion?
Eastern European conflict
NATO vs Russia
WW3

I can imagine people on here during the start of WW2 burying their heads in the sand.

Because people won't know the topic exists if they aren't looking for topics and don't search by active.

Use the search function?

This would be true if the covid board wasn’t so active and popular

It's active with people who know it exists and post on it.

I wonder how many people don't know it exists and have wondered where the Covid posts are?

I don't think that anyone will be rushing here for serious discussion on it anyway, it's probably a laughing stock

I wonder how many people don't know what's being discussed about Covid because it's a separate topic - so they can't find it easily.

If they are relying on threads in AIBU on Mumsnet to find out about Covid, they really need better information sources.

I wonder how many people don't know what's being discussed about Covid because it's a separate topic - so they can't find it easily.

It's like going to a library and instead of seeing the popular books on view (in AIBU and Chat) and learning something and contributing, you have to go to some obscure place at the back and know that you were looking for that topic.

This would be true if the covid board wasn’t so active and popular!