What is this ‘You might also like’ clutter?

Active Convos full of pointless out of date threads from several months ago.

It’s like being in a dentists waiting room surrounded by out of date magazines.

There is NO POINT to anyone being directed to a thread about someone’s lunch date from 4 months ago. Just silly. The event is long gone, there is no ‘information’ that might be useful.

You are killing your site, MNHQ.

Needs sorting out, seeing threads, from beginning of the year and people still replying. Although OP only posted the one time.

Just when the forums are being spammed with zombie threads, MN decides to create their own plethora of ancient threads! Every one I have clicked on idly has been several months if not 11 months old.

It is also stuffing the threads I'm on function - which was much better when the threads dissolved and vanished from the list after a few days; unlike now, when they hang about in perpetuity, and bob up to the top a year later when someone posts on a zombie, and have to be hidden...

Your algorith is still causing lots of frustration of zombie threads
the “ you might like this” may be a good intent for boards where old info on things like childcare, divorce process etc , but for debate, conversation, peoples individual problems, a the “ might like” merely resurrects zombie threads where the issue is long over, past it’s sell by, or other events taken over in the world.

It’s a waste of time directing peopl to them. What’s the point of reading about someone’s dramatic issue, or even parking diagram if it was 3 years ago - no one is interested except if they don’t notice it’s 3 years ago.

please just make it stop. Nothing was broken and you didn’t need to “ fix” anything by doing this.

maybe think about your intent- if it is to direct people to threads where there is useful older info. - how about highlighting these somewhere with a star system users can add ( “likes?)

Just voicing I’m not keen either.

And MNHQ are letting this happen also in Elderly Parents and with OCD / Anxiety threads.

I’m also pissed off that I wasted my time reporting so many zombie thread trolls last week. What was the point when MN are basically trolling themselves!

I don't like it and don't need it. Zombie threads don't need any encouragement.

It was so easy to predict what could happen.

There is no way an algorithm can be sensitive enough to avoid potentially inappropriate and offensive suggestions.

And I'd put money on mischief-makers creating threads just to see what nonsense gets suggested. It will be Mumsnet's equivalent to the Wikipedia game.

I’m sure black MNs who spent months arguing for their own space to post will be really happy that their experiences are on par with wearing black clothes FFS! Surely this shows why you can’t just remove a couple of the most sensitive boards from the algorithm - sensitive threads will appear throughout the whole of talk.

Surely MNHQ understand the sunk cost fallacy. Just because someone thought it was a good idea and you’ve spent time and money on it (although no where near enough time), it’s not a reason to continue flogging a dead horse.

O M Actual F G

we are not offered a facepalm emoji, so I'll have to go with 😩😖

I'm cringing on Mumsnet's behalf.

Oh my god. That’s idiotic. Are you saying you’re happy with this then @HQ?!

FFS!

@LilyMumsnet @YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet if you didn't want any more proof, this is yet more that this algorithm is far too crude.

It makes you look insensitive - at best. Very foolish at worst.

This at the bottom of a Black Mumsnetter thread - not about S&B about being Black!

The Christmas bargains thread is currently recommending the previous threads from September and October! Most of those bargains last a day or at best a week - who are those recommendations supposed to help?!

Who is this "feature" supposed to help? If someone wants to start a thread about a topic, either they will do a search beforehand to see if there is a similar (and recent!) thread about the topic or they will just create the thread. Once the thread is running, they will respond to people who are posting on that thread, having a "threads you might like" stuck on the bottom of the page is pointless for them because they are already getting current, tailored responses on their own thread. People who respond on the thread don't care about "Threads you might like" because they are responding to the OP, they are not interested that someone had a similar issue three months ago.

Also, whenever someone does do a search on an old thread and posts a question on the bottom they are invariably - and correctly - told that posters won't realise that the thread has a new question/direction and that they should start a new thread. Occasionally someone doesn't realise there is a new post and answers the original, now months-old question, until a few posts later someone realises it is a zombie. By which time, the thread is in trending!

Why on earth has MNHQ released such a half-baked idea, what is the point, take it down until you have made your "tweaks"!

Agh please make it go away!!

Just seen this feature, and came straight here to ask wtf??

Its awful, clunky, insensitive and completely unnecessary...

I honestly don't see the benefit of this feature. Mumsnet is basically a real time chat board where people ask advice about something that's happening now, in real time. Most of us aren't looking for a particular subject, we're just chatting when people bring in their latest news or issue to the board. We're not looking for a subject were just listening and responding to whatever comes up.

The feature seems to just go by thread title. So this is what I get when I read the thread about whether someone was rude to their colleague. I mean, what on earth is the benefit of suggesting other threads that just happen to have 'rude' in their otherwise unenlightening titles?

I've mentioned twice now that a thread about a cremation is appearing as a 'you may like' on a thread about 'The Great British Bake Off' and it's still there about six hours later.

I noticed this today. Explains why 'threads I'm on' has become totally unusable with all the old/dead threads that have suddenly been bumped up.

Really, really dislike it. Why promote stuff from months ago before active stuff?

They could make it opt in but they know nobody would go for it