I wondered if we might talk about ditching AIBU, please

I like AIBU - but I think it should be AIBAT (Am I Being A Twunt) because then we could all just wade in yelling 'complete twuntery'; 'twuntastic' etc.

I think we should all rate AIBUs as well (as in 1/10 on the crazy bitch scale or 10/10, you are indeed a complete nutter, clearly redirect your browser to Bounty.com.)

I like AIBU - good debates there usually. If it is banned then they will end up in chat as others said.

Surely, just hide Topics you dont like.

Relationships drive me mad, BF/Birthing/Femism threads get me into trouble so I hide all those and Style & Beauty is only for special occassions.

Just doing bed and stuff.

Will start another thread rather than behind-the-scenes nonsense.

oh i see in the past
am ready and poised.

£60 and three points?!

I have just hidden AIBU too and it is wonderful! Active convos consists of gentle quiet chat and old fashioned advice swapping. S&B seems rather too prominent for my liking now, but I sometimes get ideas from those threads so I think I will just hide individual threads rather than the whole topic.

Do try hiding AIBU if you don't like it. I can't imagine why I didn't do so ages ago.

you aint got oen from me
my ££ ran out

I read this earlier and thought no way should AIBU go. But there's one on there tonight which I have just lost patience with and now I've hidden the topic. Half my active convos have gone but I feel happier

Please don't take AIBU away.

I would have to decamp to anther forum to find something similar...................which might please the people i have mahoosive disagreements with on aibu, but then they might enjoy it as much as i do!

MrsShu, I badly need your help. Am gonna email you. I think I have a CAT from you. Please be poised.

i laugh( in a sigh kind of way)
when someone with a shit h we haev read thread after thread about then says how magnificent it is he put the milk bottles out...

Someone IBU to diss Baby Names. It's where I go to escape the venom of AIBU.

I find AIBU v funny at times. At other times, I despair that it's where a casual outsider might think MN begins and ends. The fact that it's what comes up first when you google MN means that new people come on, post on a subject they are actually quite (sometimes unreasonably) emotional about, and get their arses kicked, which is a shame.

Love the idea of a trolls topic. Can we have troll emoticons as well?

I have flounced from the relationships thread several times

There is a particular one on there right now that is making me pull my hair out, out by one

It might be time...

It certainly is overused! People use it for chatting. Because it's busy and more likely to get replies.

So instead of it being people who actually want opinions on an issue, it's full of AIBU to feel like having a takeaway. AIBU to want to watch dr who. AIBU to want a natter cos the kids are asleep, dh is watching the news and I'm lonely. (ahem. )

So imo, it would be good to stay if people would STOP trying to make every little natter they wanted to have fit the AIBU to... format. And use the other topics.

lol MrsShu

I like AIBU, although I do like the "Am I being a tad overwrought" suggestion. Perhaps with the addition of

AIBPFB

If you don't like it, hide it.

Haven't read all the opinions but I feel it is over-used. Eg instead of keeping wedding threads in the wedding section we'll get all the repetetive threads in aibu... Sort of defeats the purpose of being able to hide topics if everything is in aibu which it seems to be at the moment...

I only have about 10 topics on the go.

The one I am most glad I hid is Mental Health. Most of the ops on there were making me angry rather than sympathetic so it was time to move them across.

I keep umming and aaahing about Relationships. Think that will go soon.

I love Baby Names. We have a whole alternative beat culture going on in there that you naysayers know nothing about.

Bloody brilliant, MrsShu- in particular the first two lines

lol at " you cant take aibu away from me"

The way a stranger looks
at you and your progeny
your status on facebook
No they can't take that away from me

The way you feed your kid
whatever you have for tea
The way you treat your man
No they can't take that away from me

what ohfuck said.

is there really any point to be hung up about something you don't actually have to read.

that was about "Under the bridge"

oi

tyv fantastic idea

I requested the WWYD topic

when I floated it LOADS of people said they would use it

they didn't

in fact people type "WWYD" into their AIBU titles