Does anyone else think more people are posting in 'other subjects' and 'chat' to ensure maximum visibility of a thread?

I have in the news hidden and thats it
I can't actually cope with hearing the news so I dont want to accidently see it cause of mn either

wouldn't hide anything else

oh lord it's because things are deleted that i post in chat. don't hide much, for sale, antenatals etc.

i am a never go anywhere but active convos person

i never go to fro eg the depressed board to see what is on there as i dont particlluarly want to post on that board

but if i see a thread title which catches my eye i might post and then it is in threads im on if i want to catch up with it

I have not hidden anything. Even if I am not presently interested in nappy rashes, breastfeeding, sleep, etc, I might still be able to catch a poster crying out for help and be able to advice.

I dont post in Chat unless "I have to". I find chat is moving so fast the thread is at the bottom of the section before you blink. If I post in Parenting, Property, Education or the relevant catergory I know that in addition to active convos (where it will disappear from pretty quick) I still have a chance of somebody interested in that particular topic going to that section and see my thread nearly at the top there.

my favourite thread is actually the veggers and that is in health

unfortunately it means that a lot of personal stuff is archived but i just reckon no one is going to look as it is too difficlut to search

it is a nice microcosm with lovely peope and we talk about random stuff

you don't grow out of parenting , you grow out of nappies and babies

i put stuff in chat if people find it interesting they reply and if they dont it quickly disappears to oblivion thankfully

nice and simple

thats my method

but most of what i post is of negligible ongoing interest like planning my social life

but it must give you a very odd idea of what mumsnet is about

if i was logical i wouldnt be on a forum called mumsnet at all as i have all but grown out of parenting

WWW I think it is to do with their being so many topics now it is a bore to work out which one ours should be in and then find it.

Everytime they add a topic the topics all change place and you have to scour for them again

I've been experimenting and currently have over 100 topics hidden. I didn't use to hide any, but started hiding the For Sale ones and it just escalated from there.
At one point in a bid to cut down the time I spend on here I excluded all but 3 topics . Didn't bloody work - I was too nosy and kept wondering what I was missing

spot on franny

i can be interested in anything i even post in pregnancy and threads like that some of the time

also you get a rounder picture of people as you see more stuff

i just think hiding stuff is odd like only eat strawberry ice cream

I don't see how you can predict what topics are going to interest you on any one day
there is such a wide range of stuff within any topic, and then something will come completely from out of the blue, like that huge ruck in baby names
not that it was fun or entertaining or whatever but I would have wanted to know about it [nosy]

my mumsnet is just how it has alwys been

i like to feel the zeoitgeist

i just use active convos

the only stiuff i tend to start threads in apart from chat is site stuff as even i find it hard to post personal revelations in that topiv

thoi did end up haveing some innuendoish chat with tech in fact so not entirely impossible

no i dont hide stuff i think that would make mumsnet very dull

in fact maybe that is why people are complaining so much about dullness these days they hide too much

I don't have anything hidden...

I've noticed a few threads in Chat that could be 'specialised' but mostly I think things are still going in the right place.

I don't hide topics either - like F&Z said, I might miss something good! And I can ignore the Tabloid-Inspired Pitchfork-Waving News stories without technical assistance.

I have posted relationship topics in chat because I couldn't face the idea of the final stages of my marriage to be searchable in Mumsnet in years to come. Now, if I had had the option to post in relationships with a "destroy after x date" I wouldn't have bothered with chat.

I do the opposite, I'm more likely to post in a topic as chat is so fast moving that threads rarely stay near the top, whereas specialists in certain topics usually go to a topic and will see my post near the top.

i only hide for sale and natal clubs

why would you hide stuff i post replies regardless of the board

and i never look for particular boards

i start nearly all threads in chat cos i want it deleted even if it is innocuous cos i always say too much and posting in chat slightly reduces the amount of personal stuff left in the archives for ever

tho i doi rather damage this goal by psoting on other peoples threads

i would hate chat not to be deleted