What type of threads do you hide?

[DianaT1969]

I hide Christmas threads (the consumerism over gifts is particularly irritating).
I hid everything trans related ages ago when it was overwhelming the site.
I have also hidden baby names because it isn't relevant to my life stage.
Sometimes I hide sad threads about serious illness.
You?

Christmas threads. Because
A) I can't get over how much people spend on their children
B) I refuse to talk about Christmas until December

The 'How old do I look?' threads. Old enough to know better.

Masks
Socially distancing
Is this breaking the rule of 6 questions!
Anything with a trigger warning
gender guesses... I want to scream it’s SEX

After this, the ones with boring, bitter Lemons on them. Rejected for a scab eater. Sad really.

Interesting to see that lots of people feel the same as me about Christmas threads. It's a shame that people feel compelled to start them in April and invest time and headspace into that one day. I often wonder if they have trouble living 'in the now', and how their childhoods were. Do they feel something is missing from their lives? 'Wishing their lives away' as my mum used to say.

Babies' sleep threads. Christmas. Alcohol. Thread titles that lack punctuation.

I need to hide style and beauty it costs me a fortune

The ones that are badly veiled attempts to take the piss out of other people and the things they want to talk about. Ooooo look at me, I'm so interesting. I don't talk about Christmas until December there's nothing missing from my life.

@FrolickingLemon

Oh and those mad Thigh threads. Smacks of sad people trying to be in a cool and weird clique. Funny enough, haven't seen them for ages!

It's fine - we've found a more private place where no prurient weirdos can watch us ❤️

@Drogonssmile

I need to hide style and beauty it costs me a fortune

I'm the same. I blame S&B for Lucy & Yak outlay. I'd never heard of them before that board!

How do I lose (or loose) weight threads. Walking 10000000 steps a day won't help you lose weight - you need to sweat your bollocks off at a gym and lift really heavy weights to make a difference.

Why do people hide threads instead of just ignoring? Is there some benefit to hiding them which has escaped me?

I've come around to the Christmas threads. It makes sense to spread the present budget over several months.

@HunkyPunk

Why do people hide threads instead of just ignoring? Is there some benefit to hiding them which has escaped me?

It means they don’t appear in your ‘active’ list, freeing up space for threads you want to see.

Pregnancy
Anything to do with babies including names
Feminism
Coronovirus
Christmas

@HunkyPunk I hid a thread I was on as I knew it was going to wind me up and I simply didn’t want to see vile replies. Then it no longer appeared in my “threads I’m on”. There are plenty I’m not interested in and I don’t hide, just scroll past.

Heated pointless rows
Hysterics
Woe is me
Hopeless situations & attitudes
Rants
Health Anxiety
Situations (AIBU) where I'm in a very tiny minority
Conspiracy hysterics

This whole thread is about hiding threads.

WIBU to mention that you can hide whole topics

Which obviously only works if people post in the right topic in the first place. Works really well for Sporner Corner - you just never see those posts.

I look at "last day" and I had to hide the entire Coronavirus topic way back at the beginning otherwise every other thread would have been about the virus.

thanks for the tip about whole topics

Anything to do with transgender: Too toxic.
Christmas: I’m not a fan of all the greed, waste & consumerism so I don’t engage with it in any way outside December.

Whats a sporner?!

I have several whole topics hidden - Coronavirus, Conception (line eyes, oh FGS ask someone who can actually see it irl!), Feminism. I also hide individual threads with offensive language in them.

Almost everything really

What is WAG anyways?

I hid the “Feminism” board more than a year ago because it’s full of nutters and it was clogging up the Active Threads feed.