war topic

Are the ridiculous threads zapped quickly though?

It's a sensible decision, MNHQ. Thank you.

We can all help by reporting the more ridiculous threads so that they can be zapped quickly.

Very disappointing, not sure I’ll be able to stick around.
It’s really surprising that HQ don’t understand that a thread title in of itself can be hugely triggering. Feels like there’s very little genuine engagement in protecting mental health. As a new mum, I was really hoping mumsnet would do something to protect us from unnecessary harm and panic.

Thanks @LilyMumsnet

This is such an important time in modern history.

Bizarre - perfectly happy to quickly whisk away threads regarding women’s rights, but “we’re all gonna be nuked” threads are absolutely fine.

Think I’ll stick to the Litter Tray for the time being - though that may change if cats develop opposable thumbs, at which point everyone will be panicking that felines will be taking over the world.

If you need to hide a thread, you can do this without even looking at the opening post.

Yes but after reading the title 'I'm taking my kids out of school so we can all die together' the damage is already done

I know where the Genealogy board is but that's rarely busy, and as for Gardening - it won't be long before people are posting about digging down to their old WW2 bomb shelters, or worrying about growing potentially radioactive vegetables.

😂🤣😂 So true.

I'm a bit sad you made that decision HQ.

We've discussed this and we're not going to take any action at the moment so you are happy with the responsibility of people who rely on this site really struggling with multiple scaremongering threads. Honestly MNHQ attitude to this is shameful.

We have a separate topic for Brexit. We have one for Covid. Why not one for this? There are now hundreds upon hundreds of threads about it, and nobody is trying to hide them away, just gather them all in one convenient location. Why not?

I already have AIBU hidden, and if I hide Chat as well then there will be very little of interest for me on here. My kids are all adults, I have no interest in the baby/child/education threads, I know where the Genealogy board is but that's rarely busy, and as for Gardening - it won't be long before people are posting about digging down to their old WW2 bomb shelters, or worrying about growing potentially radioactive vegetables.

There are a lot of people on MN who have emotional difficulties of one sort or another, or have a terrible family situation to deal with. They rely on MN for support, guidance and reassurance in their situation. To come on here and be faced with all the war-scaremongering threads isn't going to do their mental health any good at all.

Yes, I would support stricter moderation of some of the scaremongering threads. Some of them are ridiculous, but putting them in a separate topic doesn't fix that.

You talking

Agh - "you're talking" - sorry!

We also, on this thread, have people wanting these threads removed from active convos/trending. ie wanting it hidden completely so that unless you know there is discussion somewhere on the site you won't see it at all.

Its a site for adults, people need to take atleast some responsibility for what they choose to read. AIBU/Chat has many subjects which individuals find triggering so it makes far more sense to hide those topics if you find some subjects triggering.

Making it easier for individual members to hide threads makes perfect sense, restricting new posters from starting threads for a period of time may also help. Making it clear that some subjects are banned from miscellaneous topics is essential if that is what happens.

However wanting mechanisms to classify threads so that people don't see them at all is frankly ridiculous.

FGS, no one is suggesting ‘hiding away’ anything, merely making proper use of the numerous existing topics so AIBU isn’t completely overrun with non-AIBU threads.

If people used the correct bloody topics more and MN had guidelines and a policy to move threads then the function of being able to hide topics would actually work effectively.

I hide the Covid topic because I was sick of seeing shouty panic-mongering threads dominating Active. I feel the same about all the ‘omg am I gonna diiiiiiieeeeee!’ threads now.

There’s a difference between the discussion of what going on in Ukraine and the ‘We’re all going to die!!!!!!!’ threads.

I don’t think what’s happening should be hidden away. I do think that the threads that are basically a written panic attack should be deleted.

while simultaneously insisting that it shouldn't make any difference where people post and a topic board should be perfectly adequate

Because you can always see current posts, and sometimes people want to be diverted by a pointless thread on loo brushes.

They can post in "In the News" section or whatever of they wish.

‘In the News’ doesn’t really cover things that touch people personally.

Irrespective of whether threads need to be moved (and I’ve clearly expressed my opinion on this), I think we are past the point when there should be a topic for Ukraine.

The choice shouldn’t be between opening yourself up to arsey replies on AIBU or hoping your thread doesn’t disappear on chat.

MNHQ

Another forum that I go on, has a thread called The one and only Ukraine War Thread. Everyone has to post on that thread and others started are removed.

It seems that people who want to talk about other subjects are keen to argue the importance of retaining access to Chat and AIBU for themselves, while simultaneously insisting that it shouldn't make any difference where people post and a topic board should be perfectly adequate. If that's the case, why not just use the topic boards yourselves and hide the ones that are disturbing you?

MNHQ I'm sorry to sound like a drama llama but can something be done about triggering thread titles appearing on the Trending homepage? Perhaps HQ edits to make the trigger warning long enough so that people who don't want to see things about nukes etc, don't see it on the first bar of the Trending topics.

I'm 4 months PP and feeling quite vulnerable at the minute. I know there are alot of MN users in the same position who feel the same.

I've had anxiety to the point of panic attacks since the Ukraine/Russia situation started, seeing thread titles about nuclear war and Armageddon are really distressing me.

Obviously people don't want to see these things so they click on the threads to hide them, thus bumping them even more.

Please can something be done?

I didn't actually know that hidden topics still appear on the trending now list, and I think that's a valid issue. Perhaps that's something that could be addressed?

Mumsnet HQ, I don't want to see all these war threads. Some of them have extreme titles, which I don't want to read.