When you want to start a conversation on Mumsnet - how do you do it?

[bibbitybobbityhat]

Please explain as if speaking to a toddler. Thanks .

I agree Hassled.

[in the manner of Dr Doolittle] by jove! I think I've got it!

Actually, although I agree with you I understand the mentality of putting threads in a high traffic area, (not that I ever have). some of the boards have a very low hit rate and responses are not always forthcoming if you don't have Known Poster status and get answered in the minute or two the thread stays near the top of Active Convos.

can i just add, in that case, that if your conversation doesn't garner enough responses, then bump it shamelessly. don't be shy and DON'T POST IN AIBU if you're not really asking aibu. god i hate aibu.

bibbity (it;s me southeast btw) i think mn could do with a 'chat' section where people could start radom, private conversations

never went down well for some reason i cannot fathom

we could start our own david essex corner - wine has a whole new topic fgs

This is all very interesting. But excuse me, Gabby is a HIM?? I completely missed that .
As you were.

Oh there you are! Have you seen he's going to leave EE to try and revive his music career. Tis a little bit sad. Still off the fags?

Shamelss bump for more replies, by way of research. Thanks.

David Essex is in EE???

ha i would have to disagree with you there bibbity, his voice is still what it was

have been off the fags 3 years now, made me fat mind

I always thought Gabby was/is male (or possibly an It, but I'm not too sure about that). A good Gabby thread always used to cheer me up.

I thought this was going to be a question of etiquette.

If you go to the top left (ish) below the purple bar and click where it says "Mumsnet Talk" in black writing you will be taken to a list of topics. Click on one that seems appropriate and then click on where it says in blue "start a new thread".

Write something in the title box and the bigger white box and click "create conversation".

It will be in "Active Conversations" because it has a recent message. If it is no longer in Active because other threads are more recent you will have to go into the thread, go to the white box at the end, write something like "why is no-one replying to me, you are all bjitches" and click "post message".

Right now Active for me is from 20:58 to 21:11 so it has 13 minutes coverage.

Me too (re. the fat SEA ).

Thanks Trills and see ... see ...

You have to search for the Topics and look through all those lists to find the most suitable Topic to post in.

Whereas, if you have clicked on a thread and then suddenly think "hang on a minute, I want to ask a question ..." you just need to go to the top of the page and click on start a new thread in this topic so you might just be intending to start a new thread, not necessarily start a new thread in aibu ...

Am I making any sort of sense?

It boils down to: a) it is not all that immediately obvious how to start your own thread and

b) aibu being the most "popular" topic with the most traffic might be a self fulfilling prophecy.

You have a point - I was talking to a newish poster in Site Stuff who was saying we needed a 'Chat' topic. It took a bit to find out she really had not found 'Chat'.

If you are in AIBU it says "start a new thread in this topic". What part of "in this topic" is unclear?

Making a cup of tea would take at least 10 lines to explain if you wrote everything out but that doesn't mean it's actually hard.

Well quite. You get the option to start a new thread in this topic when you are chatting away on a thread but its not immediately clear how you can start a new thread in a different topic and here is the list of all the topics you can choose from.

Should I start a petition or something?

Why do you need to start a conversation? Surely the great benefit of mumsnet is that you can barge in on other peoples' conversation without getting the funny looks you would if you did the same in say starbucks. No?

I think the assumption is that if you have lurked for a little bit you will be aware of the existence of other topics.

Shouldn't this be in 'site stuff'?

And really bibbity haven't you been here for aaaaaaages? Shouldn't you know how things work by now?

Sandalwood

And yes YABU because you are not asking an "Am I Being Unreasonable?" question

:-P

:o

Should have been

Am I Being Unreasonable To Ask How You Start A New Thread On Mumsnet

I guess.

Yes, of course I have been here bloody ages. Yes, of course I know how to do it. Just seems that a huge number of my fellow forum users DON'T know how to do it.

As Suepurbly says: I have seen people saying "there should be a chat topic/coffee room - wonder where that comes from btw ? - on Mumsnet" as if they are genuinely not aware that these myriad nooks and crannies of the site actually exist.

No I don't have aibu hidden. Hence being able to see this thread.

I do occasionally hide it though as it's irritating.

I think if you've been on MN long enough to want to start threads, you should be pretty clued up on the fact that there 897 separate topics and various avenues to finding them.

There are scores of posters, however, who ONLY post in aibu. Some of them, well yes, less said about that the better.

I think it should say topics ,next to where it says threads at the top of the page

I'm sure it used to