to be very bored of the thread police?

[TallTopHat]

So fucking what if it's in the wrong place?

Who resigned at MumsNetHQ and made people self appointed mods, prowling the boards for misdemeanours against topics?

I'm not arguing with you coolwhip, just trying to understand what you are saying. I'm not sure Honeydragon has got it quite right either. I'd say that one of the things that makes Mumsnet rather fighty is the very existence of AIBU. And I think it has a reputation "outside" of mumsnetland which attracts a lot of new posters who come to see what all the fuss is about. In other words AIBU has become synonymous (is that the word I mean?) with Mumsnet rather than what should have been one rather insignificant discussion board amongst many.

skinnymuffin - thanks for picking that up :o
Damn autocorrect

if I can be arsed, I pull the thread police up on the thread concerned

if I can't be arsed, I ignore it

we don't need a thread to complain about it, do we ?

is this the thread police police

arf at "helpful posting" as a penance

If I looked at your threads would it go

AIBU to think I am very PFB in wrapping my baby in a kevlar babygro and banning people from direct eye contact?

Kerry: Yes you neurotic pathetic low life twat, ffs get over it!

then>

HELP the dogs puked Ribena on the carpet

Kerry: Ooooh poor you! Have you tried soda crystals?

Bibbity - I agree, but as Honey has alluded to, where once AIBU was a place for feisty MNetters to share strong opinions and have a good ole debate without fear of censorship, it's now just an excuse for someone to say 'YABU and you're also a cunt and your children should all be eaten by hamsters'.

You used to be able to disagree with someone in one place but agree in another. It's now become very high school and 'I'm not going on that thread because so-and-so started it and she smells' type thing.

Bibbity, to an extent I do agree with you.
I'd like AIBU to stay, but I think WWYD could do with been used a LOT more For what would you have done as well as would.

No Kerry Soupdragons still Soup

Anyway, I wonder if we are going to hear again from our esteemed op, who appears to have put on a new name specially for this lovely friendly thread .

The one that gets me is when someone tells you ,
this thread has been done before.

Yes because one of the other million members on here might have had the same idea/experience / feelings as me I amnot about to read every thread on mumsnet before i post.

I demand to know where trillian is !

she should be on this thread < dons police hat >

I can't stop sniggering now

Sergant Anyfucker has a fantastic ring to it

^the way i see it, the point of having topics is to help people FIND information as well as posting it.

if you're posting it in stupid unrelated topics that doesn't help.

if we're not bothered what topic threads go in then we may as well have no topics at all. just a massive free for all....

not everyone reads MN via active convos.... some browse individual topics and will miss posts they may be able to help with, or gain information from by them being in the "wrong" area^

^^ This is exactly the reason you need Thread Police.

POWA TAMPONS

And it's an OP no show. What a surprise!

YABU.

If you can't manage a simple task like posting in the even vaguely appropriate section, you probably have nothing very interesting to say anyway. Its not rocket science to realise "what colour are your knickers" or some equal inanity is not an AIBU.

Sort yourselves out and then you'd have no problem with the "thread police"

Shouldn't this be in site stuff

I prefer the thread police to the nasty thick fuckers. Lots of them on here.

Follett Tue 13-Sep-11 22:52:02
The worst, the very worst....

Am I being unreasonable...to have been told my shoes are ugly

Am I being unreasonable...that sil didn't eat my lasagne

What?? You bloody fool.

YEssss. Your examples made my teeth itch. Surely MNHQ can write some sort of script that automatically bans people like this?

It will all find its own level sooner or later. I don't care where people post; if they want to post relationship stuff or specific topic stuff here, then fine really. It's a more general board though and not necessarily frequented by people with particular knowledge or interest in that subject. The posters know that full well though so they must want to post their threads on AIBU.

No need for thread police or spelling/grammar police though... off with their heads!

I generally scroll through Active as opposed to a topic by topic search. I did however post a hair product-related question in Style & Beauty yesterday rather than Chat because of the thread police.

Having thought about this, I'm kind of on the fence. For me personally it makes no difference where something is posted, but I can see how it could annoy some people and if you're just going to post everything in AIBU then it does negate the need for separate topics. It's slightly annoying when someone posts something like 'Shouldn't this be in x topic' but I don't lose sleep over it, and technology has given me the tools to scroll past the offending post! :o

And as another thought, it's a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy to post EVERYTHING in AIBU as then, yes, more traffic will be generated as everything will be in there. And I do feel a bit sorry for those poor unread topics...

I get irritated (so shoot me) when people post in the wrong place. MNHQ have to be really persuaded to create new topics, so it sort of goes against the grain not to use those.

I think a lot of posters are too lazy and too attention-seeking - the whole 'if I post here then my words will be seen by millions'. And also what seems to be the new phenomenon of posting twice 'so that people will see my lovely words twice over'. All that achieves is the creation of confusion. You see a thread title you've already responded to and then can't work out why the conversation is going in a slightly different direction and why your post isn't on it!

How difficult is it to use the right post?

I've reported some of the posts on this thread for being menopausalist.