I wondered if we might talk about ditching AIBU, please

lol, like me Mrs Shu! I probably have more hidden than i show

Oh Greeny, I know what you mean, but honestly, I just don't want to even look at some of the thread titles - all that ante natal stuff for starters. I have found that once you hide a topic, you completely forget it every existed which is fine for an ante natal group or a minority sport like camping, but maybe not so easy to do with AIBU.

I hide most of them

teh booze one yesterday for eg

she was CONVINCED she wasnt being unresonable and only was pleased wehn people agreed with her.

Its not the MN that we are used to DG so you aren't missing anything!!
(Yes that ild chestnut)

ANd if there is a good one then someone always starts a thread about a thread about it

ok lets look at todays aibu
do ANY of them really have any doubt if they are bu?

babynames is for wankers and illiterates i agree

I like AIBU,
and sometimes actually ask myself this question,
sometimes the answer is no,
sometimes yes,
but most of the time the people at mumsnet will give me the answer,
that is a sure bet!!

oh no hide away
tis the road to serenity
i hit hide if there are too many ** in the title
or swearing( incase of kids)
or tedious sex

am about to hide behvioru adn dev as tbh kids too old

For God's sake, if we are culling topics then surely BABY NAMES has to go ? I mean really ?

"What do you [people I have never met and am never likely to met] think about this name I might choose for my unborn child?"

Ermmmm, dull - yes. Repetetive - often. Offensive - sometimes.

Obviously these topics were ring fenced so that they could be 'hidden' (which is what I do, along with the other ones I don't like or use).

On the whole though, I agree with the don't like it - hide it sentiment.

I dn't understand how people can hide topics

I would feel like I was missing something

I prefer to have them visible but bluster and carp about the things I don't like

Can I just disagree with one thing you said in your OP Fliight? It was never funny, not even at first. I always thought it was a Bad Thing.

I think I am going to take the advice here and hide it. The only reason I haven't so far is because, as others have said, you get so much traffic through it, I am afraid of missing a vast tract of the MN experience. But maybe that would be a good thing?

i hide about 50 topics

like how i can hide the lot in one click though.

There are many a few topics i would like to see die a firey death tbh.

I hid AIBU a while ago - a good move for me.

Why not try hiding it for a week to see if it makes a difference?

I hated it in the first place and it has been hidden since day 1!

It shows a very Jeremy Kyle side to MN

IWAGITM is priceless!

so seems like its going to be staying then!

god yes
" aibu to breathe all day"

yes you are dont breathe
how dare you say dont breathe

well ok then breathe

I like AIBU
I always go there when having a bad day because it's a good way of venting my spleen legitimately

So agree with renaming IWAGITM. There are 'givers' in this world (me) and 'takers'. AIBU is therefore fulfilling an important social purpose.

What annoys me though is people who already know they ABU and therefore don't need to be told they ABU. It's almost like bragging about their unreasonableness and defeats the object.

S & B is one of the many topics I've chosen to hide. It's not something I'm interested in or want to be associated with. However, I don't mind it existing for the pleasure of others.
AIBU is entertaining and keeps those who like offering spiky, uncensored opinions in a box labelled AIBU.
If it was done away with, as Bucharest posted, then the same opinions would be offered on every topic without warning, possibly upsetting a much wider audience. Exercise your right to choose, without censoring other adults who want to speak their minds.
I don't like the sex threads either...

People would pay good money for that, ThreeLittleDucks

I like AIBU.

I LIKE AIBU

and judging by the traffic, so do los of other people

people have always been blisteringly rude on MN

there are naicer sites aplenty

and I think despite the abrasiveness people DO get good balanced advice and a snapshot of popular opinions on AIBU