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Original poster

What SINGLE thing would make Mumsnet better for you?

290 replies

bibbitybobbityhat · 19/03/2010 16:31

Thread rules:

  1. please be respectful to mnhq, this is not a bitch fest about MN
  1. only one THING per poster (or, if you must, you can have more than one but they must be on separate posts).

My thread. My rules. No arguments.

Right, I will start:

I do wish people would spend more time reading than posting. So often you have a thread (quite often an AIBU) where someone says "I haven't read the thread but YABU" or more often lately the highly unnecessary YABVVVVVVVVU when the thread has moved on hugely since the op, the arguments have all been had, everyone has bitched and moaned, made up, had a cup of tea, done a bit of ironing. If there is a slightly sparky looking OP and hundreds of posts on a thread, why not take that as a clue that the thread may well have moved on, questions asked and answers given, and read before you post?

OP posts:
ShowOfHands · 19/03/2010 20:29

Oooh I know.

3 buttons on each aibu thread. YABU, YANBU and 4.

And we can vote.

Boco · 19/03/2010 20:29

I would like mumsnet to exist outside of the normal conventions of time - so that all the hours don't get sucked away leaving piles of washing and no tea.

Slubberdegullion · 19/03/2010 20:28

LOL and at elderly txspeak

a nostalgia topic sounds great

Dumbledoresgirl · 19/03/2010 20:24

Slubber, actually, I have just gone to Saga to look (for some reason, it let me on to its boards - the other day I thought it was telling me I had to join before I could see the boards). Anyway, no sign of an AIBU. There is actually a special "nostalgia" topic - oooh how exciting!

Then I clicked on a random chat topic and saw one poster had written "I fink her album is great". Shudder. FINK Urgh.

Lexilicious · 19/03/2010 20:15

in the index of threads (within the topic or on Active or whatever), a column for when the thread was started - so you can see if someone has randomly resurrected a three year old one, or whether one has got 300 replies in its first day, or 30 over a week.

Slubberdegullion · 19/03/2010 20:13

It could be, and they almost certainly do. Although probably ALL of the topics are for moaning with a special topic for being bright and cheery on.

Oh that sounds bad.

Old people are not necessarily moany.

I take the saga slander back.

Original poster
bibbitybobbityhat · 19/03/2010 20:10

Oh aye LadyBlahBlah - a 10/10 point.

The webchats. I quite agree.

OP posts:
Dumbledoresgirl · 19/03/2010 20:10

I wonder if the Saga forum has an AIBU section?

It could be a deal-breaker if they do.

Original poster
bibbitybobbityhat · 19/03/2010 20:08

Groooooo is nauseous but we don't like to talk about that do we ?

OP posts:
FalafelAtYourFeet · 19/03/2010 20:07

Blackberry app

LadyBlaBlah · 19/03/2010 20:07

I second the refresh button at the bottom of the page......I know Cmd and R works, but requires 2 hands. (no F5 function on a Mac)

Also would like a debate about the webchat format, not sure they get the best out of guests at the moment.

Original poster
bibbitybobbityhat · 19/03/2010 20:07
OP posts:
ninah · 19/03/2010 20:05

ooh a teasmaid! that's an idea (throws corkscrew in recycling)

Dumbledoresgirl · 19/03/2010 20:05

PS What is "groooo"?

Slubberdegullion · 19/03/2010 20:05

God yes to the over exciter aibu-er. Calm down dears, you cannot deconstruct every thread on mn to un or over reasonableness.

I HATE myself when I accuse dh of being unreasonable and he give me the look. I have to go and hit myself with a spade in the garage I hate it so much.

[slightly drunken hyperbole]

Dumbledoresgirl · 19/03/2010 20:03

Lol at me having left. I am here every day Bibbity. I often see your name and want to post just because you have, but I don't want to appear stalkerish.

noddyholder · 19/03/2010 20:02

Being able to see everyone!

Original poster
bibbitybobbityhat · 19/03/2010 20:02

Baldy you are such a tw@*^%

OP posts:
BoysAreLikeDogs · 19/03/2010 20:01
Original poster
bibbitybobbityhat · 19/03/2010 20:00

I'd like it if we could restrict the

a little because I find it a bit grooooo.

Having said that, I am ever so pleased to see you DG, I keep thinking that you have left.

OP posts:
Dumbledoresgirl · 19/03/2010 19:59

Absolutely Slubber. I have never started a thread in AIBU, mainly because I am perfectly capable of knowing whether I am being U or not, and secondly, because even if I am being U, I really don't want the abuse that goes with it.

So I stay clear of AIBU and then get some over-excited AIBU-user shouting YABU! at me when I have specifically not asked their opinion.

Anyway, some great suggestions here. I know we aren't allowed 2 or more things, but I would love to be able to edit posts (but it should then be clear you have changed your post otherwise people would try to change inflammatory posts and cause more arguments).

Also I like the idea of being able to reply to specific posts and maybe have a side conversation in one thread without hijacking the main conversation.

And the ability to hide some posters would be pleasant too - although could make some threads hard to understand.

Clarissimo · 19/03/2010 19:54

I think the minute an OP using AIBU tells anyone daring to say YABU that it is their thread / get angry with them / express annoyance for opinions a ray shoudl appear from the PC and blast them into a million tiny particles whcih can then be reconstituted in the form of cake (well its all hydrocarbon based isn;t it?) for Riven

Nymphadora · 19/03/2010 19:54

IPHONE VERSION !!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry for shouting but it would make it so much easier to MN more!

TrillianAstra · 19/03/2010 19:39

F5 rendered

renderedspeechless · 19/03/2010 19:32

a resfresh button at the bottom of the page as well as the top.